16 January 1999. They range from mildly threatening to extremely deadly products. Cash-strapped developing countries import waste for financial gain from industrialzied countries. Toxic materials are often stored imporperly and handled by uneducated, poorly equipped workers.
Workers are often aware of the risks they face, but are unable to leave.
This web page explores the methodologies behind the Toxic Waste Trade, its effects in and on several nations, and efforts to limit and control it. The toxic waste trade helps industrialized countries at the expense of developing ones. This can be seen as a form of environmental racism, and a violation of our own standards of inspirational justice. What is unacceptable here should be unacceptable everywhere. We in the industrialized world must reduce our consumption patterns, something many of us have been trying to accomplish, with no success, for years.