Mr. Clapp is a journalist and the author of “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash,” from which this essay is adapted. In the closing years of the Cold War, something strange started to happen.

Lyah Muktavaram is a member of the class of 2026 and can be reached at lmuktavaram@wesleyan.edu .

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