Hazardous waste management opportunities for ISWA activities 1984?1988

Schenkel, Werner; Skinner, John H.

doi:10.1016/0734-242x(85)90142-9

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“…Apart from flow, there is insufficient data to show what happens with waste after transboundary movement making it difficult to determine its sustainability impact. Early in the discourse, Schenkel and Skinner (1985) highlighted the need to close the information gap between scientific and technical experts and government and practitioners. Thirty-six years later, these gaps remain and represent obstacles to understanding the transboundary movement of waste.…”

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Transboundary movement of waste review: From binary towards a contextual framing

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Multiple cases of toxic waste dumping from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries to non-OECD countries in the 1980s led to scholarly attention to transboundary waste movements. The Basel Convention was established to provide an international legal framework to tackle such problems in the early 1990s, focusing on hazardous waste. However, the transboundary movement of all waste, not just hazardous waste, remains a societal challenge globally, frequently surfacing as an ethical question on the one hand and a story of resource management/trade on the other. This phenomenon has been studied across disciplines resulting in diverse, scattered and often contested understandings. Despite previous and ongoing efforts, waste production, management and transboundary movements are increasing and are predicted to grow significantly with global social, environmental and economic implications. This literature review uses a research synthesis and problematisation approach to critically analyse the transboundary waste literature since 1985. The findings highlight research trends, the need for data reliability and policy coherence, and the sustainability implications of the phenomenon. One recurring theme in the literature is the reduction of the complex phenomenon involving multiple countries, policies, actors and waste streams into simple opposite narratives, which we called transboundary waste binaries. We have identified and then challenged assumptions behind transboundary waste binaries and discussed the implications of such assumptions on the broader discourse. We have concluded with future research recommendations to look past the transboundary waste binaries towards a nuanced and contextual understanding of transboundary waste flows.

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confidence: 99%