{"id":132915,"date":"2024-08-09T07:56:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T04:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/ngos-warn-of-illegal-waste-export-from-europe-to-asia\/"},"modified":"2024-08-09T07:56:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T04:56:16","slug":"ngos-warn-of-illegal-waste-export-from-europe-to-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/ngos-warn-of-illegal-waste-export-from-europe-to-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"NGOs warn of illegal waste export from Europe to Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132915\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>A call has been put out by environmental non-governmental organisation, Basel Action Network (BAN), for the seizure and return of two container ships suspected of illegally transporting hazardous waste. The alarm was raised after the MAERSK CAMPTON switched off its Automatic Identification System (AIS) GPS beacon on 31 July and failed to dock in Cape Town, South Africa on 1 August. The ship, which departed from Albania with the intended destination of Thailand, is reported to be carrying an estimated 327 tonnes of what BAN suspects to be toxic steel furnace dust collected from pollution control filters.<\/p>\n<p>BAN has confirmed that neither Albania nor Thailand was informed about the export. The transportation of hazardous waste without the approval of both the exporting and importing countries is illegal under the Basel Convention, an international treaty restricting the movement of harmful waste between nations.<\/p>\n<p>According to EARTH, local communities have filed around 300 complaints regarding illegal waste dumping in the past five years. The adverse effects of the waste have had severe implications for the health and wellbeing of the neighbouring residents. Ms. Penchom Saetang, EARTH\u2019s Director, said: \u201cUnder no circumstances will Thailand accept being the dumping ground for the rest of the world&#8217;s toxic industrial waste, electronic wastes or plastic wastes. \u201cWe call on our government and the government of South Africa to take the necessary actions to stop this offensive trade dead in its tracks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/resource.co\/article\/ngos-warn-illegal-waste-export-europe-asia\">Resource<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/5-576\/\">NGOs warn of illegal waste export from Europe to Asia<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[788,575,696,7605],"class_list":["post-132915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asia","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-europe","tag-waste-export"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}