The problem of '
environmental dumping' has come to the fore in the past year after China banned imports of foreign plastic waste in a move that left developed many Western nations struggling to find places to send their garbage.
Tackling social and
environmental dumping was also a key issue for the EP, which put up a fierce battle to win concessions from the Council.
Ecosocialism fights the engines of the capitalist system: exploitation and the endless search for maximum profit, the consumerism and productivism that exhaust ecosystems, globalization with its unbridled competition that encourages social and
environmental dumping, imperialism and wars of aggression, racism, colonialism and all forms of oppression.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy still wants to see a "carbon tax" put in place at the European Union's borders to keep from adding "
environmental dumping to social dumping".
Through currency manipulation, product piracy, violation of copyrights, and various forms of wage, social, and
environmental dumping, they were rolling up western markets, resulting in unemployment and falling living standards.
"People's fear of crime and distress at the antisocial behaviour that turns their neighbourhoods into
environmental dumping grounds are palpable.
Environmental dumping characterises a situation in which a government uses lax environmental standards to support domestic firms in international markets.
The phenomenon of off-loading unwanted refuse to poorer countries is termed "
environmental dumping" by economists.
The report stresses the need to take account of environmental aspects in EU trade policy to combat
environmental dumping and unfair competition that puts European companies at a disadvantage.
The participants in the three-way talks also noted a tentative convergence on combating social and
environmental dumping but the scope of measure still has to be analysed.
