The Transboundary Trade of Hazardous Wastes, 2000–2006
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The regulation, disposal, and risks posed by hazardous waste are global issues. The Basel Convention and the Pollution Release and Transfer Registry were initiated to reduce the trade and to monitor the cradle-to-grave progress of hazardous wastes. We examined the quantities of hazardous wastes internationally transported during the period of 2000 to 2006 by countries that ratified the Basel Convention. Because the United States has not ratified the Convention, we reported data provided by the Environmental Protection Agency. We found that much of the hazardous waste trade flows to and from nations with the technological capacity to process and dispose of these wastes. In addition to the United States, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and the Netherlands are major participants in both exporting and importing hazardous wastes. Data issues are discussed.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it