assignment 4

1. BAN is the world’s only organization focused on confronting the global environmental injustice and economic inefficiency of toxic trade (toxic wastes, products and technologies) and its devastating impacts. Working at the nexus of human rights and environment, we confront the issues of environmental justice at a macro level, preventing disproportionate and unsustainable dumping of the world’s toxic waste and pollution on our global village’s poorest residents. At the same time we actively promote the sustainable and just solutions to our consumption and waste crises — banning waste trade, while promoting green, toxic free and democratic design of consumer products.

A summary of what it is would be works to prevent the globalization of the toxic chemical crisis. They work to ensure national self-sufficiency in waste management through clean production and toxics use reductions and in support of the principle of global environmental justice.

2. 625 Plum Industrial Ct.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15239

United States

 or

4105 Leap Road

Hilliard, Ohio, 43026

United States

3. Haiti, Afghanistan

If a country has signed the treaty but has not yet ratified it, this is indicated by the word "signature".

4.reduce reuse recycle responsibility

 And although espousing this catch-phrase, it is inevitable that most of the emphasis is on recycling, less on reuse, and even less on waste reduction. Moreover, what is forgotten in this view is a vital fourth R: Responsibility. This includes the produoer’s responsibility not to produce products that are toxic or that possess other environmental liabilities, and to take full financial responsibility for the entire life cycle of their wastes and products. It also includes the national responsibility to become self-sutficient in hazardous waste management, as called for in the Basel Convention (see Geiser and Ticlcner, this volume) and to halt all exports of hazardous wastes from developed to developing countries as called for in the Basel Convention’s Ban Amendment.

These views I think in my opinion are at odds with the situation these countries that this is happening to are less fortunate then us and have to do anything to survive. I think instead of stopping it which should help them do it more safely and that would cause a lot less damage to the planet. My role with the responsibility is to make sure I’m not causing any electronic waste and to say something if I see it happen.

5. Its dumping this waste in third world countries because we wouldn’t do it here because people would say something but if we do it somewhere else and they profit of it no one seems to care which is totally wrong.

Some real costs of doing this is destroying our planet that we live on and more importantly its killing people and causing unsafe environments to live in for these countries where it is happening.

It does reflect social justice because just because these people have a different economical way of living and are less fortunate then us there still people and should be treated like it.