Ivory Coast
REPORT: NO MEASURES IN PLACE TO PREVENT HAZARDOUS WASTE DUMPING IN DEVELOPING WORLD
10/01/2012
Update Volume
42
Update Issue
28

There is still nothing to stop the dumping of hazardous waste in developing countries more than six years after Trafigura's actions, according to a new report on a three-year investigation by Greenpeace and Amnesty International. Trafigura, a global oil trader, was convicted in a Dutch court for illegally exporting waste to dump in the Ivory Coast after it shipped chemical waste and disposed of it, untreated, at various dumping sites around Abidjan. The public health crisis allegedly affected more than 100,000 people, causing breathing difficulties, nausea, and burning skin.

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