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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Moyers, Bill D. Global dumping ground. Washington : Seven Locks Press, c1990 (OCoLC)646967700 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bill D Moyers; Center for Investigative Reporting (U.S.) |
| ISBN: | 093202095X 9780932020956 |
| OCLC Number: | 22210213 |
| Description: | xvii, 152 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | The paths of least resistance -- Odyssey of the poison ships -- The pioneering Colbert brothers -- Troubles on the border -- Loopholes in the law -- The first world: a toxic gold mine -- Rethinking the future. |
| Responsibility: | Center for Investigative Reporting and Bill Moyers. |
Abstract:
Reveals the dangers facing our planet due to the lucrative and scandal-ridden business of trafficking in hazardous waste. Too often, the industrial world's worst poisons end up in countries where regulations are weak and seldom enforced. No country figures more prominently in this trade than the United States, which--as the world's top producer of hazardous waste--generates more than 500 million tons annually. In what amounts to the export of Love Canal, hazardous cargoes from America--used car batteries, dry cleaning fluids, banned pesticides, and the like--find dumpsites in the developing nations.
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