Very often the dumping charges
that these engineered landfills
in Europe or United States are
extremely expensive. So you
know, it can cost upwards of 85
US dollars to 150 US dollars, or
it could be completely illegal
to dump that waste... per metric
tonne sorry at an engineered
landfill. So very often the
export economics of shipping
that waste to another country
that has a much lower
landfilling cost in Tanzania and
Kenya, for example, the
equivalent unit is only $1.50
per metric tonne to dump their
waste at the landfill. So that
just provides, you know at
larger volumes an astronomical
saving for these countries. But
this is not meant to exist for
hazardous waste materials like
chemicals and paints and
certainly electronic waste which
has heavy metals in it. That was
meant to be ruled out in the
Basel Convention decades ago and
a lot of this is kind of falling
through the cracks,
unfortunately.