ApocaDocs: Toxic waste export harder to control, despite Basel Convention

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Posted Tue Jul 1 2008: from Daily News (Sri Lanka):


	Toxic waste export harder to control, despite Basel Convention http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1214914388 A meeting of the Basel Convention on hazardous wastes was told of the continuing transfer of wastes to developing countries, including the export of used condoms to Indonesia and electronic wastes dumped in China and Nigeria inside equipment such as computers and cell phones. African countries also recalled the immoral act of a Dutch-based shipping company that dumped toxic chemical wastes at Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, which killed three people and hospitalised 1,500. These incidents were cited by participants as signs that the problem of hazardous waste movement has not lessened and are more difficult to control, despite the Convention.

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The ApocaDocs say:

If only their lives were as important as ours. But, y'know, they don't value life as much
over there.