68-Yokohama City's illegal export of industrial waste disposal -short- March 2000- Environmental destruction
In 1999, a waste treatment company based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, illegally exported approximately 3,000 tons of industrial waste to the Port of Subic in the Philippines. This waste contained construction waste containing asbestos, lead, cadmium, and other hazardous substances. Because the waste was not properly processed locally, there were concerns about environmental pollution and health hazards. With the cooperation of the Philippine and Japanese governments, the waste was recovered and reprocessed in Japan. The incident triggered the strengthening of regulations based on the Waste Disposal and Public Cleansing Law and the Basel Convention.
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