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- Title
A Worn-Out Welcome.
- Authors
Haynes, Rebecca Clay
- Abstract
The article focuses on the ban for the use and mining of asbestos as being applied by various countries. The global use of asbestos hovered around 4.3-4.7 million metric tons per year when Iceland banned most of its forms in 1983. Madhumita Dutta, a member of the Occupational Health and Environment Network of India, says that India has banned tremolite and amosite, but the use of chrysotile is still widespread. It adds that public pressure has nearly removed the use of asbestos in Canada, but the country continues to export chrysotile in some countries such as India. The U.S. still imported 1,460 metric tons of chrysotile from Canada in 2008 despite of its effort to stop the mining of asbestos in 2002. It stresses the efforts to push Canada and the U.S. for a complete ban of asbestos.
- Subjects
INDIA; CANADA; UNITED States; ASBESTOS; ASBESTOS mines &; mining; DUTTA, Madhumita; CHRYSOTILE; TREMOLITE; EXPORTS
- Publication
Environmental Health Perspectives, 2010, Vol 118, Issue 7, pA298
- ISSN
0091-6765
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1289/ehp.118-a298