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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. Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972

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    The act regulates the ocean dumping of all material beyond the territorial limit (3 miles (4.8 km) from shore) and prevents or strictly limits dumping material that "would adversely affect human health, welfare, or amenities, or the marine environment, ecological systems, or economic potentialities". [4]

  4. Oslo Dumping Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Convention for the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping from Ships and Aircraft also called the Oslo Convention was an international agreement designed to control the dumping of harmful substances from ships and aircraft into the sea. It was adopted on 15 February 1972 in Oslo, Norway and came into force on 7 April 1974.

  5. Maritime environmental crime - Wikipedia

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    Environmental maritime crimes are committed at sea with the intent of avoiding regulations and extra fees, meaning that criminals can have important financial gains by bypassing legal protocols. [2] As an example, dumping fuel instead of going through the designated legal processes can save companies from 80 to 220.000 dollars. [6]

  6. 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 ...

  7. Barcelona Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean, [1] originally the Convention for Protection of the Mediterranean Sea against Pollution, [2] and often simply referred to as the Barcelona Convention, [3] is a regional convention adopted in 1976 to prevent and abate pollution from ships, aircraft and land based sources in the Mediterranean ...

  8. Marine pollution - Wikipedia

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    While marine pollution can be obvious, as with the marine debris shown above, it is often the pollutants that cannot be seen that cause most harm.. Marine pollution occurs when substances used or spread by humans, such as industrial, agricultural and residential waste, particles, noise, excess carbon dioxide or invasive organisms enter the ocean and cause harmful effects there.

  9. OSPAR Convention - Wikipedia

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    The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic [1] or OSPAR Convention is the current legislative instrument regulating international cooperation on environmental protection in the North-East Atlantic.