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- Subject: NEWS: Names Named in Somalia Toxic Waste Scandal
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- Date: 11 Sep 92 20:11:06 GMT
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- [Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]
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- GREENPEACE NAMES NAMES IN SOMALIA TOXIC WASTE SCANDAL
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- ROME September 9, 1992 (GP) Greenpeace revealed today that the
- Italian company PROGRESSO s.r.l. is the waste trader behind the
- illegal trafficking of toxic waste to Somalia.
-
- Greenpeace said the agreement for the scandalous deal was signed
- in Rome, on 5 December 1991, and authorizes the Swiss company
- ACHAIR and PARTNERS to annually export 500,000 tonnes of hospital
- and industrial waste from Italy to Somalia over the next twenty
- years. The waste is to go to a 10 million ton disposal site.
-
- UNEP director Dr Mustafa Tolba this week publicised the deal, but
- was told the media that he was afraid to reveal any details of
- the company involved, describing the parties involved as "mafia".
-
- One of the founding members of ACHAIR, Pierre Andre RANDIN, has
- already been prosecuted for illegal trade in information
- technology to Eastern Europe between 1981 and 1982. Last spring
- he co-founded, together with Marcello GIANNONI, a company called
- "MANAWASTE", for waste exports to the Third World. GIANNONI now
- is a director of PROGRESSO.
-
- "This Somalian toxic waste export scandal underlines the failure
- of the 1989 Basel Convention to control waste trade, and the
- urgent need for a total ban on hazardous waste exports to
- developing and Eastern European countries" commented Greenpeace
- Italy's Roberto Ferrigno.
-
- The case also shows how Italian companies circumvent the
- prohibition of hazardous waste exports from EC Member states to
- Somalia, as provided in the LOME IV Convention between the
- European Community and a group of 69 developing countries amongst
- which Somalia.
-
- Dr Tolba publicised the agreement this week after the Basel
- Convention Secretariat was notified of it. Under the terms of the
- Basel Convention it is perfectly legal to export hazardous waste
- from Switzerland to Somalia as long as both governments agree to
- do so.
-
- "We absolutely have to get to a total ban of all waste exports
- from all industrialized countries to the Third World and Eastern
- Europe" Ferrigno concluded.
-