Mr. Clapp is a journalist and the author of “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash,” from which this essay is adapted.

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Forced leaves have begun in Washington and worldwide for most employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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The government has backed the contentious third runway at Heathrow Airport, but what will that mean for our environment?