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The Conundrum of Waste Management: Examining Responsibility towards the Protection of the Environment

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Madhuri Meelee1, *
1Assistant Professor, School of Law, KIIT Deemed University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
*Corresponding author. Email: madhuri.meelee@kls.ac.in
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Madhuri Meelee
Available Online 13 June 2024.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-255-2_39How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Waste Management; Waste Trade; State Responsibility; Environmental law
Abstract

Waste consists of a variety of materials ranging from household, plastic, electronic, construction, and medical to hazardous waste. Every country produces waste that falls under more than one of the above-mentioned categories. Collectively more than 2 billion metric tons of municipal solid waste is produced by the world which is predicted to rise by 70% in the next 30 years. When waste goes untreated it becomes a definite threat to the environment as pollutants. Under international law, waste is treated as distinct from pollution. Some conventions and treaties govern the disposal of waste which is hazardous. However, a situation has arisen where economically developed countries have been taking advantage of poorer countries using them as their dumping yard. This paper shall delve into the scope of current international laws and international state liabilities on waste management. The paper shall examine the present scenario of waste trade under international environmental law. The focus shall be laid on the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal 1989 (Basel Convention) and the related principles that govern state responsibility.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the NDIEAS-2024 International Symposium on New Dimensions and Ideas in Environmental Anthropology-2024 (NDIEAS 2024)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
13 June 2024
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978-2-38476-255-2
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-255-2_39How to use a DOI?
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© 2024 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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