Background

• Bury the Toxic Waste Trade

What is the toxic waste trade? What has been done to try and end it? What problems remain today? What needs to happen now? Key facts. Key facts to ask your government. OECD countries. Non-OECD countries.
Sample letters you can write.
• Toxic Waste Fact Sheet

Defining toxic waste. Examples of toxic waste. Options for treatment and disposal. International trade in toxic waste. Toxic waste and the law. What can industry do about toxic waste? What you can do. Did you know? Further reading. Useful contacts.
• MPs face grilling on toxic waste - Electronic Mail and Guardian

A team of parliamentarians set out to probe disclosures that South Africa continues to import toxic material for recycling even though the Cabinet has reassured the public that it will ban such consignments.
• Superfund - an Overview

Purpose: To identify and cleanup America's most hazardous waste sites and to recover cleanup costs from owners and operators of Superfund sites.
Salting the Earth - The case for repealing Superfund
• India has become dumping ground for toxic waste from West
• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
• The U.S. EPA Toxic Release Inventory System (TRIS)

The Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) contains information about releases and transfers of more than 650 toxic chemicals and compounds to the environment.
• The U.S. EPA Hazardous Waste Generator Information

Case Studies and Offered Solutions

• Ramat-Hovav

The national dumping site for hazardous chemical wastes in Israel.
History of the site
Public Action (A) / (B - in Hebrew)
The Official Government page about Ramat-Hovav
• 1 The Love Canal

How Industry survived the Love Canal
A State's right to recover punitive damages in a public nuisance action:
The Love Canal Case Study
• Case Study: Substituting Less Toxic Solvents for Hazardous Solvents

Thilmany Company
• Materials Management Yields Major Savings for Anitec
• Hazardous Waste Management at SSU

Sonoma State University (California) Environmental Health & Safety serves the University community by administering programs that protect the natural environment and enhance employee safety.
• Case Study: RSR Corporation
• ATSDR Case Studies in Environmental Medicine

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry