BRUSSELS – France, Denmark and Sweden have called for stricter controls on the export of secondhand clothing from the EU to destinations such as Africa. They want textiles to be subject to the same rules as other sectors such as electronics which are subject to the terms of the Basel Convention.
The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal is an international treaty designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries.
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