"Makes critical contributions to waste and discard studies, environmental history, and global environmental politics. Compellingly written, sourced and structured, it tells a hard-to-trace story that is fundamental to the history and politics of hazardous wastes."
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Kate O'Neill, author of Waste
"An important book that speaks to major issues about globalization and environmental justice. The public policy implications are significant."
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Martin Melosi, author of Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York City
"This compact volume is both a compelling yarn of the maritime migration of 15,000 tons of Philadelphia incinerator ash in the late 1980s and an impressively researched study of the ongoing problem of the international toxic waste trade. Müller never fails to see the big in the small in this strong addition to global environmental history."
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J. R. McNeill, author of The Webs of Humankind: A World History
"The Toxic Ship shows how and why incineration of Philadelphia's wastes shaped local environmental injustices and waste colonialism in multiple nations. Simone M. Müller's compelling history is an important contribution to contemporary debates about sustainable waste management practices."
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Carl Zimring, author of Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States
"A deft philosophical and literary examination about what we throw away, where our discards go, who is harmed, and why, The Toxic Ship follows vessels that carry hazardous wastes but also carry the hazards of greed and racism as ballast. Müller's crackling prose and careful storytelling reveal how near-infinite wastes unto a finite planet leads to spatial, social, and economical consequences. An absolutely necessary book."
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Kerri Arsenault, author of Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains
