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  2. Environmental dumping - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by ...

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    The convention was called for by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (June 1972, Stockholm), the treaty was drafted at the Intergovernmental Conference on the Convention on the Dumping of Wastes at Sea (13 November 1972, London) and it was opened for signature on 29 December 1972. It entered into force on 30 August 1975 when ...

  4. Waste management - Wikipedia

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    The "Global Waste Management Outlook 2024," supported by the Environment Fund - UNEP’s core financial fund, and jointly published with the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), provides a comprehensive update on the trajectory of global waste generation and the escalating costs of waste management since 2018. The report predicts ...

  5. List of language self-study programs - Wikipedia

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    With effort, learners can study any language by comparing their recordings to the same story in a language they know. [ 7 ] The list of self-study programs, below, shows the number of languages taught by each program, the name of the program, and the number of different languages used for instruction.

  6. Waste - Wikipedia

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    Waste management is a significant environmental justice issue. Many of the environmental burdens cited above are more often borne by marginalized groups, such as racial minorities, women, and residents of developing nations. NIMBY (not in my back yard) is the opposition of residents to a proposal for a new development because it is close to ...

  7. Category:Waste management - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 26 October 2023, at 21:17 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  8. Toxic colonialism - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Wikipedia:Language learning centre - Wikipedia

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    This doesn't attempt to teach you a language as you'd expect from a course but is simply a tool for assisting this process, with word lists in different languages and a resources list with external links to videos, blogs and newspapers etc. to help editors acquire a language. Learning a language and reaching a fluent level takes a lot of time ...