摘要：Australia has a speci￠c interest in international trade in hazardous wastes.It was a reluctant signatory to the Basel Convention restricting such tradeand, with its substantial land resources, could conceivably provide an exportservice in waste disposal. Given strong international opposition to unsafedisposal and a growing illegal trade, Australia might simultaneously be ableto develop a promising service export and resolve currently intractable globalenvironmental problems.
