Overview
- Describes the historical background of the international plastic waste trade
- Explores regulations on plastic waste trade and how they can be and are circumvented
- Analyzes the effects of China's 2018 ban on plastic waste imports
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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The Theory, Background and the History of the Plastic Waste Trade
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The Illicit Activities in the Plastic Waste Trade and Its Toxic Effects
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The Receiving Country’s Perspectives
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Plastic Waste Trade
Book Subtitle: A New Colonialist Means of Pollution Transfer
Editors: Sedat Gündoğdu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51358-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51357-2Published: 01 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-51360-2Due: 15 March 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-51358-9Published: 29 February 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 312
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour
Topics: Pollution, general, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Environmental Health, Human Geography