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Very often the dumping charges[br]that these engineered landfills

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in Europe or United States are[br]extremely expensive. So you

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know, it can cost upwards of 85[br]US dollars to 150 US dollars, or

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it could be completely illegal[br]to dump that waste... per metric

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tonne sorry at an engineered[br]landfill. So very often the

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export economics of shipping[br]that waste to another country

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that has a much lower[br]landfilling cost in Tanzania and

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Kenya, for example, the[br]equivalent unit is only $1.50

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per metric tonne to dump their[br]waste at the landfill. So that

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just provides, you know at[br]larger volumes an astronomical

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saving for these countries. But[br]this is not meant to exist for

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hazardous waste materials like[br]chemicals and paints and

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certainly electronic waste which[br]has heavy metals in it. That was

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meant to be ruled out in the[br]Basel Convention decades ago and

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a lot of this is kind of falling[br]through the cracks,

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unfortunately.