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.