Bio

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Adam Minter is a columnist at Bloomberg Opinion and the author of two best-selling, critically-acclaimed books, Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade, and Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale. He is an expert and popular speaker on global sustainability, waste, and recycling.

In recent years he has extended his reporting and writing interests to the global business of sport.

Minter spent two decades living and writing in China and Malaysia. He continues to spend part of the year in Southeast Asia, and the remainder in the American Midwest.

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