Caption

Trafficking Waste Stories, 2006

Summary

This map shows illegal waste trafficking around the world, indicating waste producers, regions/states where illegal waste dumping has been proved, zones that suffer major conflicts, regions where small arms traffic has developed, and waste shipment routes.

Legend indicates:

• OECD countries (main hazardous waste producers)
• States or regions where illegal waste dumping has been proven (not comprehensive)
• Major current conflict zones
• Regions where small arms (related) traffic is particularly developed
• Major illegal waste shipment routes from Europe (as reported by IMPEL)

Source

United Nations Environment Programme / GRID-Arendal [1].

Cartographer/Designer: Emmanuelle Bournay.

Primary sources:

Iman Shebaro, Hazardous Waste Smuggling: A Study in Environmental Crime, TRACC website;

IMPEL-TFS Threat assessment project: The illegal shipment of waste among IMPEL member states, 2006;

Legambiente; The Guardian, 14 October 2004; Human Rights Watch 1999 Report, Human Rights, Justice and Toxic Waste in Cambodia;

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2006; and Small Arms Survey 2005.

Copyright

© 2006 UNEP / GRID-Arendal

Licensing

For use constraints see
[2].

Series

This map is one in a series:
For a listing with flyovers, see Series:UNEP / GRID-Arendal.