Why is waste ending up in Africa?

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.