{"id":3079,"date":"2026-03-03T15:17:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T07:17:58","slug":"the-global-illegal-trade-in-toxic-waste-exceeds-18-billion-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/the-global-illegal-trade-in-toxic-waste-exceeds-18-billion-annually\/","title":{"rendered":"The global illegal trade in toxic waste exceeds $18 billion annually."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report, the annual cross-border trade in illegal toxic waste worldwide exceeds $18 billion, primarily involving the transfer of pollution from developed to low-income countries. Over 80% of electronic waste is not disposed of in an environmentally sound manner. Illegal dumping and incineration are poisoning water sources, soil, and the atmosphere, releasing non-biodegradable toxic substances that cause irreversible ecological damage and trigger global environmental risks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report, the annual cross-border trade in illegal toxic waste worldwide exceeds $18 billion, primarily involving the transfer of pollution from developed to low-income countries. Over 80% of electronic waste is not disposed of in an environmentally sound manner. Illegal dumping and incineration are poisoning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-survival"],"views":52,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3081,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3079\/revisions\/3081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greenearth.icu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}