After 144 containers of waste were sent to Turkey, Germany finally accepts responsibility for the exports. Jim Puckett, executive director for Basel Action Network, “explained that official legal frameworks makes it easy for governments to covertly use less developed nations as cheap dumping grounds for their waste.” 
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