Global dump

"While international corporations boast of newfound environmental stewardship, toxic materials are still produced on a worldwide scale--with underdeveloped nations serving as the planet's dump site. This program explores the issue, traveling to Asia, Africa, and Latin America to illustrate the effects of industrial waste on the environment, social systems, and human life. Viewers will gain an understanding of several topics: the impact of pesticides and other chemical products, the role of large-scale food waste, the dangers low-wage workers face as they pick through urban trash heaps, and more."--Films Media Group website.

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""As our demand for resources grows bigger every year, so too our need for dumping grounds also increases. With the global trade in waste intensifying, some of the poorest peoples in the world have become guardians of the world's largest waste dumps, with horrifying consequences for the local people. This thought-provoking program reveals how third world countries experience the consequences of environmental degradation much more severely than Western world and looks out at the approaching global consequences for this "out of sight" approach"--Container."
""While international corporations boast of newfound environmental stewardship, toxic materials are still produced on a worldwide scale--with underdeveloped nations serving as the planet's dump site. This program explores the issue, traveling to Asia, Africa, and Latin America to illustrate the effects of industrial waste on the environment, social systems, and human life. Viewers will gain an understanding of several topics: the impact of pesticides and other chemical products, the role of large-scale food waste, the dangers low-wage workers face as they pick through urban trash heaps, and more."--Films Media Group website."@en
""The environment is deteriorating. The air, the earth and the sea are suffering an accelerated process of degradation. From the award-winning Spanish production company NEW ATLANTIS, THE GLOBAL DUMP examines one of the most significant difference between first and third world nations, depicting the consequences of the lack of scruples towards the poorest populations will result in their being the keepers of the global litter dump in which our planet is fast becoming."--Container."@en
"As our demand for consumer goods grows every year, so too our need for dumping grounds also increases. In the era of globalisation, even the disposal of wastes, some of it highly toxic, has become globalised, with many of the poorest nations of the world becoming the garbage dumps for the developed nations. This thought-provoking program reveals how the third world countries experience the consequences of environmental degradation much more severely than the Western world and looks at the approaching global consequences of this 'out-of-sight' approach."@en
"Looks at the implications of the growing need for dumping grounds for the waste generated by the manufacture of new consumer goods and the discarding of old ones. Examines the globalization of industrial waste disposal, including toxic materials, and the shifting of the burden to less-developed nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Also discusses the likelihood of more severe consequences of environmental change and degradation in the Third World."@en