The Transboundary Movement of Wastes...
Date: 1987
Type of Waste: Municipal incinerator ash
Source: U.S.A.
Exporter: Bulkhandling
Pretext/Fate: Roadbed material
Status: Rejected
In 1987, the Panamanian government retracted its earlier approval for a scheme which would have dumped 250,000 tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia in coastal wetlands in the province of Bocas del Toro.
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Suriname
Date: 1987
Type of Waste: PCB waste
Source: Europe
Exporter: Mine Tech International
Pretext/Fate: Dump
Status: Rejected
This former Netherlands colony in South America rejected plans by the Netherlands firm, Mine Tech International, to dump two million tons of PCB-contaminated wastes from Europe in Suriname in exchange for an undisclosed sum of money, in 1988. rejection followed a heated debate in Suriname over the proposal.
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Turks and Caicos
Date: 1986
Type of Waste: Sewage sludge
Source: U.S.A.
Exporter: Applied Recovery Technology Pretext/Fate: Dumping
Status: Unknown
The broker firm, Applied Recovery Technology of Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A. has been attempting to ship US sewage sludges to numerous Western Hemisphere countries since 1986. ART has offered British officials approximately $33 million per year for use of 400 hectares of land for a dumping ground on West Caicos Island.
The Governments of Belize, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras have
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Greenpeace U.S.A., file documents.
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Hilary French, "Toxics Wastes Crossing Borders," World Watch, January/February 1988.