WASTE CRIME – WASTE RISKS

Index
Abandoned cargo 8, 9, 60, 61, 62
Amber-listed waste 16
Bamako Convention 7, 13, 14, 43
Basel Convention 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 43,
51, 57, 59, 61, 62
Brominated flame-retardants 8, 24
Cathode ray tubes 16, 17, 22, 23
Co-mingled waste 25, 61
Counterfeit pesticides 6, 26, 27
Cross-border movement (of waste) 11, 59
Dismantling 24, 38, 41, 43, 45
Disposal (of waste) 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 27, 31, 33, 37, 41, 62
Electrical and electronic equipment 8, 14, 15, 17, 22, 24, 32
End-of-life vehicles 24, 55, 57
End-of-life vessels 43, 45
Energy recovery 31, 51
E-waste 6, 7, 8, 15, 22, 23, 24, 32, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 48, 49, 55,
56, 57, 59
Extended Producer Responsibility 35
Green-listed waste 16
Harmonized System 23
Hazardous waste 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 25,
26, 27, 33, 41, 43, 48, 53, 55, 56, 59, 62
Household waste 14, 23, 25, 32, 61
Illegal dumping (of waste) 8, 24, 29
Illegal processing (of waste) 49
Illegal traffic (of waste) 11, 12, 13, 21, 22, 41
Informal sector 6
London Convention 43
Metal scrap 17, 22, 23
Multilateral environmental agreement 11
Municipal waste 22, 32, 41
Non-hazardous waste 8, 9, 17, 23, 24, 25, 53, 55, 62
Nuclear waste 43
Organized crime 8, 31
Ozone depleting substances 24, 42, 49
Port-hopping 60
Radioactive waste 13
Recycling 6, 8, 9, 13, 23, 25, 26, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 45, 48, 49,
51, 53, 55, 59, 61, 62
Retreaded tires 51
Rotterdam Convention 6, 7
Shipbreaking 43, 45, 48
Stockholm Convention 6, 7
Toxic waste 43, 49
Transboundary movement (of waste) 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 23, 29, 62
Used lead-acid batteries 24, 25
Waigani Convention 7, 13, 14
Waste management 7, 9, 14, 24, 27, 31, 32, 48, 62
Waste tourists 35, 53
Photo credits
1 iStock/hroe 1 Chien-min Chung/In Pictures/Corbis 6 iStock/Linda Steward 7 iStock/svedoliver 10 iStock/BanksPhotos 12-13 Kevin McElvaney,
http://derkevin.com 14 Huib van Westen/Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate, The Netherlands 15 Runa Opdal Kerr, Norsk Gjenvinning
Norge AS 16 iStock/firemanYU 18-19 Kevin McElvaney, from the series “Agbogbloshie”, http://derkevin.com 20 iStock/LeeYiuTung 22
iStock/unkas_photo 24 Nancy Isarin 25 Sophie Gerrard, from the series “E-Wasteland”, www.sophiegerrard.com 25 Blacksmith Institute, www.
blacksmithinstitute.org 26 iStock/Vladimir1965 26 iStock/JohnnyG 27 iStock/annavaczi 27 iStock/VYG 30 iStock/westphalia 36 Sophie Gerrard,
from the series “E-Wasteland”, www.sophiegerrard.com 37 Sophie Gerrard, from the series “E-Wasteland”, www.sophiegerrard.com 40 iStock/Matt
Brown 43 iStock/suc 44 iStock/suc 45 Office of Response and Restoration, NOAA 46-47 Michael Biach/Demotix/Corbis 49 iStock/badmanproduction
51 iStock/stoonn 52 iStock/dan_prat 57 iStock/Beyhan Yazar
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