THE MEASURES AND REGULATIONS ABOUT WASTE EXPORTING
Selçuk DENEK

Abstract

With the development of technology and industry, people could easily supply any of tools to make easier their life. Moreover, they would like to possess more technologic ones. As a result of this, there are always too many old and useless tools which called wastes anymore. As well as this, companies, countries, factories and any other organizations are also act in the same way. Consequently, all of these behaviors cause the waste problems. Furthermore, countries ,particularly rich and developed ones, try to remove these wastes without paying any cost and facing legal regulations. For that reason, they tend to export wastes to poor and undeveloped countries. On the other hand, undeveloped countries do not have enough capability to recycle these wastes which are generally hazardous and detrimental for human life and environment. After all, international actors struggle with this problem to protect environment by taking measures. The Basel convention is the most essential international agreement to prevent and regulate exportation of hazardous wastes. As a result, this study tries to explain the situation about waste exportation and to examine the international regulations for preventing waste exportation to the third World countries.

Key words: waste export, hazardous wastes, and Basel Convention.

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