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book dumping

The practice of donating old used books that burden rather than assist communities.
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...there is some sensitivity in Africa to being the recipient of the West's unwanted or secondhand surplus goods, and sometimes well-intentioned gifts of educational materials have been criticized by their recipients as examples of "book dumping" - equivalent, that is, to garbage disposal or to the removal to Africa of European and American toxic wastes.

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

Additional definitions for 'book dumping':

book dumpingThe discarding of quantities of books.
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