id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
iiclr-17595	Valin, Donna	The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Waste and Their Disposal: Should the United States Ratify the Accord?	1995	22	.pdf	application/pdf	9361	620	58	' Increased regulatory constraints have affected traditional low-cost disposal methods,22 thereby causing a reduction in waste disposal capacity.23 Due to increased operating costs over the past decade, many facilities capable of disposing of hazardous waste have been forced to close.24 In the United States alone, nearly half of 4,600 facilities that treated or disposed of hazardous wastes during the 1980s closed because of increased regulation.25 Due to the increasing cost of waste disposal, particularly hazardous waste, industry has gone beyond its own borders for disposal.26 Developing nations, severely burdened by huge foreign debt, provide attractive disposal sites due to their lack of environmental controls and their need for capital.27 This debt places enormous pressure on developing countries to exploit their resources to acquire substantial 18. Article 8 provides that when transboundary movement of hazardous waste which is carried out in accordance with the Basel Convention cannot be completed in accordance with the contracting Parties, the State of export must ensure that the wastes are re-imported.60 The Basel Convention defines this as taking all practicable steps to ensure that hazardous wastes or other wastes are managed in a manner which will protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects which may result from such wastes.	cache/iiclr-17595.pdf	txt/iiclr-17595.txt