Abstract
India’s lenient environmental standards allow for frequent and unregulated waste importation and dumping within its borders. The extent and effects of this dumping are appalling. India, along with other developing countries, allows the parties engaged to benefit financially through this dumping. Waste continues to be brought into India even after its ratification of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (Basel Convention) in 1992. For this reason, India has become an attractive option to countries, like the United States, for exportation and dumping of their hazardous waste.
Recommended Citation
Quadri, Shaza
(2010)
"An Analysis of the Effects and Reasons for Hazardous Waste Importation in India and Its Implementation of the Basel Convention,"
Florida Journal of International Law: Vol. 22:
Iss.
3, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/fjil/vol22/iss3/4