ABSTRACT
Chemicals are used everywhere from increasing agricultural yield to controlling and treating diseases. Along with the benefits come unwanted hazards. Chemicals are also in warfare for mass destruction with obvious outcomes. The Basel Convention was initiated from the uproar over the free disposal of hazardous wastes in developing countries by the developed countries. Since many of the problems are closely linked, the Rotterdam Convention and Stockholm Convention on POPs were discussed in Chapter XI. The Bamako Convention was agreed upon to keep Africa out of the global backyard. Environmental groups and media coined terms like 'waste colonialism', 'toxic terrorism' and 'not in my backyard'. But if we have one planet with one health the concern 'not in my backyard' needs a paradigm shift to 'not in anybody's backyard'. The International Maritime Organization worked to place the Hong Kong International Convention demanding a safe and eco-friendly dismantling and scrapping of ships that otherwise would pose to be dangerous for human health along with coastal water pollution.
