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It is an international body created to deal with transboundary issues of the international hazardous waste trade. Because the issue of the transnational hazardous waste trade crosses many borders and affects many nations, it has been important to have a multinational, multilateral organization presiding over these affairs.
Along with autoclaving and incineration, Canada also allows international waste to be buried in a landfill, however the landfill must be approved the waste must be buried. The landfill must be 0.5 km from any livestock, precautions must be taken to prevent animals from entering, and the waste must be buried under 1.8 km of non-international waste.
The International Waste Working Group (IWWG) is a registered not-for-profit international waste organisation established in 2002 to serve as a forum for the scientific and professional community, aiming to provide an intellectual platform to encourage and support integrated and sustainable waste management and to promote practical scientific development in the field.
‘The more you dig into the recycling of plastic, you realize that it’s really a sham,’ an international waste trade expert tells senior climate correspondent Louise Boyle
The International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) is a non-governmental, independent and non-profit association by statutes and follows the mission statement to promote and develop professional waste management worldwide as a contribution to sustainable development.
Current international trade flows of waste follow a pattern of waste being produced in the Global North and being exported to and disposed of in the Global South. Multiple factors affect which countries produce waste and at what magnitude, including geographic location, degree of industrialization, and level of integration into the global economy.
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The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to restrict the transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries. [2]