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- Title
THIS PAPER IS TRASH: PROBLEMS IN INTERNATIONAL WASTE MISMANAGEMENT.
- Authors
BALK SCHAER, JORDAN
- Abstract
Waste generated from developed states often ends its journey inside the waste management facilities of developing states and, ultimately, their landfills. Developing states end up bearing the risk of devastating their own ecological systems and poisoning their populace, while developed states are unequivocally better off. Recognizing this problem, the international community responded by adopting the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (1989), the most significant international treaty governing the global waste trade. However, the Convention has not resolved the problem of fairness posed by the global waste trade. This Note argues that the Basel Convention erroneously assumes that consent is meaningful in a transaction between a developed state and developing state--when the developing state is instead incentivized to weaken its own environmental protections to participate in the global waste trade. Although the Basel Convention requires that waste be disposed in an environmentally sound manner, the Convention's explanation should go into further detail to fulfill the objectives of the Convention. Specifically, the Convention should set explicit standards for different types of waste to ensure that they are disposed of in an environmentally sound manner. Additionally, the parties to the Convention should provide more resources to developing states who participate in the global waste trade.
- Subjects
WASTE management; LANDFILLS; BASEL Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes &; Their Disposal (1989); INTERNATIONAL trade; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
George Washington International Law Review, 2024, Vol 55, Issue 1, p125
- ISSN
1534-9977
- Publication type
Article