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Environmental harmful product dumping (“environmental dumping”) is the practice of transfrontier shipment of waste (household waste, industrial/nuclear waste, etc.) from one country to another. The goal is to take the waste to a country that has less strict environmental laws , or environmental laws that are not strictly enforced.
In 1992, 'toxic colonialism' was a phrase coined by Jim Puckett of Greenpeace for the dumping of the industrial wastes of the West on territories of the Third World. [2] The term refers to practices of developed nations who rid themselves of toxic or hazardous waste by shipping it to less developed areas of the world.
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.It is publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded entirely by its commercial activities, including advertising. [1]
This article lists film and television works which feature or discuss the environment, environmentalism or environmental issues.. Some notable and commercially successful films have featured environmental themes [1] and are commemorated through several environmental film festivals held annually.
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Gastric dumping syndrome, when intestines fill too quickly with undigested food from the stomach; Homeless dumping, medical workers releasing homeless patients on the streets; Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, a 1986 act of the U.S. Congress to prevent "patient dumping" or the refusal to treat people because of inability to pay
The chemical waste was dumped in at least 14 offshore locations, ranging from the Channel Islands in the north, to the shores off Ensenada, Mexico, in the south. The Environmental Protection Agency has designated one of the offshore sites as a subunit of the Montrose Chemical Superfund site. After studying the offshore site, the EPA is planning ...
William Sanjour, branch chief of waste reduction within the United States Environmental Protection Agency, alleged that "the administration doesn't want to implement this [Superfund] law," and that the agency has been "systematically suppressing" environmental regulations. [citation needed] An EPA program administrator commented: