Clearly Hazardous, Obscurely Regulated: Lessons from the Basel Convention on Waste Trade

Wireless Waste: Basel Convention’s Next Hazardous Waste Challenge

Over 1 billion mobile phones are currently in use worldwide. In North America, particularly in the United States, the number of people using mobile phones has jumped from a mere 340,000 subscribers in 1985 to over 128 in 2001. Coupled with a relatively high discard rate and the intrinsic hazardousness of various mobile phone parts, the threat of waste mobile phones inundating the global waste s...

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal.

Waste Classification of Discarded Mobile Phones within the MPPI and the Basel Convention

The consideration that end-of-life mobile phones are hazardous wastes is likely to be controversial with those who might be unaware that cell phones contain hazardous substances and as such will be regulated under the international definitions of hazardous waste once they are discarded. However this matter has largely been resolved for us by the definitions found in the Basel Convention and by ...

ENVIS on Hazardous Waste

1 Atmospheric metallic and arsenic pollution at an offshore drilling platform in the Bo Sea: A health risk assessment for the workers Hong Xu, Suqin Han, Xiaohui Bi, Zhijing Zhao, Lei Zhang, Wenjie Yang, Min Zhang, Jing Chen, Jianhui Wu, To investigate the ambient metal pollution at the offshore drilling platform in the Bo Sea, which few studies have focused on, PM2.5samples were collected and ...

ENVIS on Hazardous Waste