GEOG 3 Lecture 10: Cultural Geography 3 - Lecture 10
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Movie: global dumping ground (frontline: a special report) America"s toxic trade waste going south to third-world countries. Ship full of toxic ash went from philly haiti singapore. Jack/charles hobort jailed for transporting toxic waste into 150 countries barrels of toxic. Send this waste to other countries surplus chemical business (re-use chemicals) pesticide = bury in america or sell in a third-world country (like ddt) signo trading. International accusations against them expanded to include arms dealing owners thought that everything was fine, they don"t know what happened with their shipments to zimbabwe (where tax dollars were being used) In order to export hazardous waste, someone must notify the head of epa, if the receiving country does not oppose, then epa has no choice but to send the toxic waste. Resource recovery and conservation act (1970s) defines what/which is hazardous waste. Taiwan says that they cannot accept more scrap metal, but u. s. insists (free trade and waste)
