The European Union's laws governing waste disposal require more recycling of paper and plastic each year, and generally prohibit dumping in landfills.
We will simply quote it here: "Long before all the headlines on ocean pollution, Texaco's tanker-operating procedures prohibited the dumping of oil at sea.
Boats will be prohibited from dumping sewage in New York State waters in Long Island Sound under a ban announced on Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The fun ended in 1990 when the International Maritime Organization prohibited the dumping of plastic waste into the sea, which included those little white balls.
In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency said that it would designate most of Jamaica Bay, which is part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, as a "no-discharge zone," meaning that boats will be prohibited from dumping sewage.
In its brief, the Justice Department argued that Judge Charles H. Haden II of United States District Court in Charleston, W. Va., ruled properly in October that the buffer zone rule of the surface mining law prohibited the dumping of mountaintop coal waste near streams.
Before the London Convention of 1972, an international agreement that prohibited marine dumping, countries were free to use the oceans as a trash heep for nuclear waste.
Although the final bill dropped the Senate proposal allowing a Congressional veto over any weakening of laws prohibiting the dumping of foreign goods, it does require the administration to consult with Congress on such laws, and theoretically allows Congress to halt any deal under negotiation.
Their long-term planners are proposing to prohibit sand dumping and beach scraping.
In 2002, the administration essentially repealed a longstanding provision of the Clean Water Act prohibiting the dumping of mining wastes in streams.
