Toxic waste, I guess, is the key clue to that one.

1. ReChem s toxic waste incinerator in Pontypool, South Wales (para. 60).

Developed countries are greatly responsible for destroying the environment (agreements breached, nuclear tests, mass destruction weapons, industrial and toxic waste, deforestation, irrational use of modern technology, pesticides, garbage, etc.)

Further, it is burying nuclear and toxic wastes from Israeli industrial sites.

NGOs continue to work towards having the toxic waste at Thor returned to the senders.

Industrial waste is often discharged into Palestinian land without treatment.

Yes, acute in Montana. Toxic problems from mine waste have caused damage of billions of dollars.

Legislation on toxic waste was also scarce and rarely coherent it would therefore be extremely important

According to the statement, that waste contained toxic heavy minerals such as cadmium, zinc and mercury.

(e) Use of waste heat from large industrial and combustion plants

In early June 1998, Greenpeace International condemned Israel for dumping waste in the sea and, in a statement dated 18 June 1998, informed the Mediterranean region that two dinghies carrying some of its activists had intercepted the Israeli ship Ariel while it was dumping toxic liquid industrial waste offshore near Haifa.

The illegal transboundary movement of toxic materials and chemicals and hazardous waste also threatens ecosystems and human health.

How to improve the level of industrial solid waste resource comprehensive utilization

for the Bamako Convention to enter into force, thus creating a regional, homogeneous response to the issue of toxic waste.

ReChem apos s toxic waste incinerator in Pontypool, south Wales, has been for 20 years the destination of thousands of tonnes of highly toxic wastes, especially polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), from all over the world.

Furthermore, efforts have apparently also been made by toxic waste traders to dump in Nigeria milk products contaminated with radioactive chemicals.

Pushing forward the treatment of industrial solid waste, improving the supervision mechanism of solid waste, and strengthening the scientific and technological support for the prevention and control of solid waste pollution.

Urges all Governments to take appropriate legislative and other measures, in line with their international obligations, to prevent the illegal international trafficking in toxic and hazardous products and wastes, the transfer of toxic and hazardous products and wastes through fraudulent waste recycling programmes, and the transfer of polluting industries, industrial activities and technologies, which generate hazardous wastes, from developed to developing countries

Urges all Governments to take appropriate legislative and other measures, in line with their international obligations, to prevent the illegal international trafficking in toxic and hazardous products and wastes, the transfer of toxic and hazardous products and wastes through fraudulent waste recycling programmes, and the transfer of polluting industries, industrial activities and technologies, which generate hazardous wastes, from developed to developing countries

Adverse effects of the illicit movement and dumping of toxic waste and dangerous products and wastes on the enjoyment of human rights

(f) The question of fraudulent waste recycling programmes, the transfer of polluting industries, industrial activities and technologies from the developed to developing countries and their new trends, including e waste and dismantling of ships, ambiguities in international instruments that allow illegal movement and dumping of toxic and dangerous products and wastes, and any gaps in the effectiveness of the international regulatory mechanisms

Moreover, the world s production and consumption habits remained unsustainable, and emissions of pollutants, particularly toxic substances, greenhouse gases and waste, had continued to increase.

Exploiting loopholes in the South African legislation, Thor reportedly imported and stockpiled more than 3,000 tons of toxic waste which it could not handle.

40. The Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Commission a governmental agency was not dealing specifically with toxic waste at the moment because of other priorities.

Israel is also dumping radioactive and chemical waste and highly toxic insecticides in the waters of the Mediterranean and particularly in its territorial waters.

After the fire, Thai government authorities allegedly relocated the toxic residues to a dumpsite in a military area in Kanchanaburi. The toxic waste is buried approximately 4 m underground and the entire 3,800 m2 area is covered with cement.

Agriculture was the second largest emitter for most Parties, followed by the industrial processes and the waste sectors.

26. Waste generation, both domestic and industrial, continues to increase world wide as growth in consumption also rises.

Reportedly, the new method employed by the latter group is to disguise toxic chemicals and waste products as raw materials that come under various labels.

In particular, EJNF complained that the standards for burning the toxic waste recommended by the Commission were internationally proven to cause health and environmental problems.

First was the Basel Convention, which was negotiated at UNEP in Nairobi in the mid 1980s, when complaints about movements of toxic waste became pressing.

In addition, in many areas the hazards of natural origin interact with those of technological and human origin, such as inadequate waste disposal in riverbeds, industrial waste and mine tailings.

And so many of these diseases, like asthma and certain kinds of cancers, are on the increase around places where our filthy toxic waste is dumped.

Urges human rights bodies to be more systematic in addressing violations of rights associated with the practices of multinational companies, toxic waste and other environmental problems

It had also aggravated the impact of nuclear and toxic waste illegally dumped along the Somali coastline, an issue that had both legal and moral connotations.

9. The issue of illegally imported and dumped toxic waste was finally closed in June 1997 after several shipments were returned to their countries of origin.

On 19 June 1998, Fuad Hamdan, the representative of Greenpeace International in Lebanon, stated that Israel had resumed its dumping of toxic and hazardous waste in the Mediterranean and that Rafael Eitan, the Minister for the Environment, had permitted a Haifa based company to dump 60,000 tons of toxic waste in the Mediterranean up to the month of October of that year.

63. Because of the international implications of the illegal traffic and dumping of toxic waste, the regional approach is crucial for a coordinated response to the problem.

In like manner, proceedings have not progressed with regard to persons arrested in April 1998 for the importation and dumping of toxic waste in Gonaïves in 1988.

Agriculture was the second largest emitter for most Parties, followed by the industrial processes sector, and then the waste sector.

To date none of the following types have been reported on industrial processes, solvents, agriculture, waste disposal or bunker fuels.

Human activities affecting the Earth's climate and environment included toxic emissions from industry, deforestation, the unregulated discharge of domestic and industrial waste, petroleum related pollution and population explosion, and the consequences of those activities included global warming due to greenhouse gas effects, ozone depletion, rising sea levels and drought and related desertification.

Several experts spoke on the cost effectiveness of different options for waste destruction, noting that it might be more economically feasible for toxic waste to be exported to appropriate treatment facilities than for those facilities to be constructed in the host country.

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