When most people think of hazardous waste trading, they think of egregious dumping by U.S. and European firms on poor countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. But over 80 percent of the waste trade takes place between industrialized nations and is legal by domestic and international standards. In Waste Trading among Rich Nations, Kate O'Neill asks why some industrialized nations v…
Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.