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About Shipbreaking

What is shipbreaking?
How are ships scrapped?
Where are they scrapped?

India
Bangladesh
China
Pakistan
Turkey

Problems of shipbreaking

Workers and environment
Toxic substances

Heavy metals
Asbestos
Persistent Organic Pollutants

Photo gallery: good versus bad

Asbestos removal
Pollution of soil and water
Fire and explosions
Toxic gasses

What are the solutions?

Basel convention
Basel convention and shipbreaking
IMO
EWSR
Good scrapping & clean prodution
Ballast water

Demands Greenpeace

Asian shipbreakers

What can you do

Operation Final Voyage

Greenpeace and shipbreaking
Links

Links

Stop the rustbuckets
International Maritime Organisation
Basel Action Network
Basel Convention
International Federation for Human Rights
International Labour Organisation
ITF
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

Pacific Princess ('Love Boat') is on the Greenpeace list.
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