EC238 Lecture 4: Ec238 lesson 4
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The tri was enacted in 1986 as part of the environmental protection and community right to. Know act, providing information to the public on the release over a certain size of toxic substances into the environment. Reductions have occurred under the enacting of tri. Proposition 65, the safe drinking water and toxic enforcement act of 1986, is a california statute that requires companies who produce, use or transport the tri listed chemicals to notify those who could be impacted. Only companies with ten or more full-time works are required to comply with proposition 65. The basal convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and. It requires oecd countries to obtain written permission from the government of any developing country before sending toxic waste there for disposal. In 1994 an additional agreement prohibited the export of toxic wastes from any oecd country to a non-oecd country.
