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Regional instruments on hazardous wastes- extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… in the region from pollution from ships and from dumping of wastes and other matter from ships and aircrafts. … Convention area. Parties are also required to prohibit the dumping of hazardous and radioactive wastes at sea. This could solve problems of illegal dumping at sea as explained in the introductory requirement, …
Introduction to the Basel Convention - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… load (by mass) are: land-based (82%), vessel-based (9%), dumping of waste at sea (8%) and off-shore activity (1%). … a vessel for the purpose of discharging waste, as that is dumping. Pollution from vessels can take the forms of oil, … sewage, garbage, fumes and invasive exotic species. Dumping is the deliberate disposal of wastes at sea. Offshore …