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  2. Global waste trade - Wikipedia

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    The Bamako Convention is different from the Basel Convention in that Bamako “essentially bans the import of all hazardous waste generated outside of the OAU [the Organization of African Unity] for disposal or recycling and deems any import from a non-Party to be an illegal act.” [15] However, these countries could not effectively implement ...

  3. Environmental dumping - Wikipedia

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    The waste is typically non-hazardous and includes metals, plastics, and paper products. In 2007, it is estimated that OECD countries exported between 4 and 5 million tons of metal and paper waste. OECD countries also exported near a half of million tons of recovered plastics in 2007. Some of these wastes that are transported can be hazardous waste.

  4. EPA explains why it authorized GenX imports to Fayetteville - AOL

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    Two EPA websites, the PFAS tracker and e-Manifest, show that the Fayetteville Works plant has shipped at least 37.5 tons of GenX and PFAS compounds to Deer Park and other hazardous waste ...

  5. Hazardous waste in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "In terms of hazardous waste, a landfill is defined as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action ...

  6. Scientists find huge trove of rare metals needed for clean ...

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    But this toxic waste may also be a treasure trove for the rare earth elements needed to propel the world toward clean energy. ... The country currently imports more than 95% of its rare earth ...

  7. GenX imports to Fayetteville on pause as EPA ... - AOL

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    EPA had authorized the importation of four million pounds of GenX from Chemours’ Dordrecht plant to the Fayetteville Works facility over the next year.

  8. Electronic waste by country - Wikipedia

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    The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known simply as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries.

  9. Bamako Convention - Wikipedia

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    The barrels, found in storage in the port of Koko, contained toxic waste including polychlorinated biphenyls, and their eventual shipment back to Italy led to protests closing three Italian ports. The Bamako Convention uses a format and language similar to that of the Basel Convention, but is much stronger in prohibiting all imports of ...

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