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Very often the dumping charges
that these engineered landfills

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in Europe or United States are
extremely expensive. So you

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

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

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tonne sorry at an engineered
landfill. So very often the

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export economics of shipping
that waste to another country

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that has a much lower
landfilling cost in Tanzania and

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Kenya, for example, the
equivalent unit is only $1.50

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

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just provides, you know at
larger volumes an astronomical

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

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hazardous waste materials like
chemicals and paints and

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

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

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a lot of this is kind of falling
through the cracks,

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unfortunately.