African deaths reveal illegal trade in toxic waste - Toronto Star

Sep.27, 2006. 10:51AM OLIVER BULLOUGH REUTERS LONDON A scandal around the dumping of oil waste blamed for eight deaths in Ivory Coast has given rare insight into the world's murky trade in waste, much of it toxic, in defiance of global trade laws. Activists campaigned against the dumping of toxic waste in Africa and the developing world in the 1980s, and regulations adopted in Basel in 1989 attempted to restrain the business. But now, after the Ivorian scandal, they say the worst practices are ...