About Adam Minter
Adam Minter is an American writer in Shanghai, China, where he has covered a range of topics for publications that include The Atlantic, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Foreign Policy, The National Interest, Mother Jones, Scientific American, ARTnews, and Sierra. In addition to his freelance work, Minter is the Shanghai correspondent for the Bloomberg World View blog.
Minter is currently at work on Wasted: Inside the Multi-Billion Dollar Trade in American Trash for Bloomsbury Press and publication in 2013. Wasted is an insider’s account of the hidden world of globalized recycling, from the US to China, and points in between.
Minter has covered the global recycling industry for more than a decade. In 2002, he began a series of groundbreaking investigative pieces on China’s emerging recycling industries for Scrap and, later, Recycling International that were recognized, in 2004, with the first Stephen Barr Award for individual excellence in business feature writing, awarded by the American Society of Business Publication Editors. Since then, he has been cited, quoted, and interviewed on recycling and waste by a range of international media, including The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Guardian, and National Public Radio. He regularly speaks to groups about the global waste and recycling trade including, in 2008, an invited address at the Royal Geographic Society, London. He’s proud of that last one.
Minter is represented by Wendy Sherman at Wendy Sherman Associates.
