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Plastic Waste Trade

Name: Plastic Waste Trade
Brand: Springer, Berlin
SKU: 9783031513572
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A New Colonialist Means of Pollution Transfer

Autor: Sedat Gündogdu

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Springer, Berlin

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This contributed volume takes a holistic view of the international waste trade and in doing so argue...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Sedat Gündogdu

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2024

strony

324

EAN

9783031513572

Enbook ID

44544762

Wydawca

Springer, Berlin

Waga

711

Wymiary

155 x 235

Pełny opis

This contributed volume takes a holistic view of the international waste trade and in doing so argues that the transfer of plastic waste from mainly Global North to primarily Global South countries constitutes a form of 21st Century colonialism. The book first describes the history of the plastic waste trade, from toxic disasters in the 1970s and 1980s through the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal in 1989 through China's 2018 implementation of a "National Sword" policy that effectively banned importation of plastic waste. From there, the authors explore both the legal trade in plastic waste and the underground illegal trade in waste, arguing that both lead to devastating impacts on ecosystems, workers, and communities in receiving countries and highlighting how countries that receive waste are often less equipped to process it than the countries that export waste. The last section of the book presents cases from countries on the receiving end of the plastic waste trade, highlighting inherent problems from sociological and environmental justice perspectives.