Dump
Under dumping refers to the disposal - actually entrustment - of waste in the aquatic environment. The term can originally be traced back to the opening of a flap, but is now generally used in the above sense. Often this is liquid waste (e.g. dilute acid ) or heavy oil residues that are disposed of when a ship or tank is cleaned at sea.
Legal regulations
Since the dumping pollutes the environment and leads directly or indirectly to environmental damage, it is regulated by various international and national agreements for many substances in terms of environmental protection in shipping . For example, there are detailed regulations for the dumping of dredged material that arises when dredging fairways and ports. The cleaning of ships and tanks at sea is regulated by the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships .
Both in Germany and in the European Union , the dumping of waste at sea is no longer a permitted practice for the treatment of waste, among other things due to the OSPAR contract ( contaminated sites in the seas ).
Since the international Oslo-London Agreement (Oslo February 15, 1972, area of application North Sea and Atlantic, London December 29, 1972, area of application worldwide) was ratified and the "High Seas Discharge Act" came into force in 1977, waste disposal has been authorization required in the Federal Republic of Germany. The law regulates the introduction or discharge of substances into the high seas. It is supplemented by the High Seas Discharge Ordinance and the High Seas Discharge Administration Regulation.
Examples
- Action against nuclear waste dumping in the North Atlantic: The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior was deployed in 1979 to prevent the dumping of radioactive waste from the British transport ship Gem;
- 1982 Greenpeace campaign against nuclear waste dump ships from the Netherlands and Great Britain;
- In 1982 Bayer AG ended the dilute acid dump in the North Sea;
- After further protests by environmental groups , Germany in 1989 and Great Britain stopped the dump in 1993;
- Dumping of rubble , snow from road clearance ;
- Dumping of dredged material from dredging in rivers and ports;
- Dumping of several nuclear reactors east of the Russian island of Novaya Zemlya .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Umweltlexikon-Online: Waste disposal at sea ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
