According to this blog by Helmut Sorge for the OCP Policy Center, global waste levels, other than e-waste, now stand at 1.3 billion tons a year. This figure is expected to increase to 2.2 billion tons per year by 2025. Despite the ban on ocean dumping of industrial and radioactive waste, containers are still shipped along the path of least resistance and weakest governance, ending up in remote areas of Africa and Asia. The Basel Action Network warned South and South Eastern nations that they face a tidal wave of electronic and plastic wastes if they do not ban these imports by ratifying the Basel Amendment, which makes it illegal to export hazardous wastes from developed to developing countries.
http://www.ocppc.ma/blog/running-risk-turning-planet-garbage-dump#.W3FEspRR2Uk

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