Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste

Political Economy of Transboundary Movements of E-Waste: Maximizing Efficiency and Minimizing Risks

E-waste is traded between developed-developing and between technologically advanced developing-developing countries. The push and pull factors are influencing import and export demand of e-waste. The ‘Basel Ban’ signatory both developed and developing countries are lax in ‘Ban’ enforcement as the transboundary movement of ewaste is a complementary need for them. The harmful effects of hazardous...

Export of electronics equipment waste.

Electronics equipment waste ("e-waste") includes discarded computers, computer monitors, television sets, and cell phones. Less than 10% of e-waste is currently recycled. The United States and other developed countries export e-waste primarily to Asia, knowing it carries a real harm to the poor communities where it will be discarded. A 2006 directive bans the use of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexa...

Managing E-Waste in India: Adoption of Need Based Solutions

Near to two decade after the Basel Convention (BC) under United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), most of the nations are still working for Waste Electrical and JIBC December 2011, Vol. 16, No.3 2 Electronic Equipment (WEEE) or E-waste disposal programme. The Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal is the most comprehensive global environm...

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

Seeping Through the Regulatory Cracks

T management of toxic waste has become an increasingly global business. The worldwide generation of hazardous waste is currently around 440 million tons, of which an estimated 10 percent makes its way across international boundaries.1 A variety of industries generate toxic wastes, ranging from chemicals to electronics and from plastics to metal plating. These toxic wastes have adverse affects o...