[salt-thrower]

Sad. I had no idea “dump it in the water” was still a waste disposal practice in any developed nations. As per the article, only three countries on earth still grant licenses for this: Turkey, Papua New Guinea, and Norway.

[wahnfrieden]

The rest just export the practice outside their constituency's sight, an expensive luxury only affordable to developed nations

[zh3]

Indeed, Trafigura [0] [1] are a shining example of how to do business (they dodged prosecution in Norway [2] for the same kind of waste they dumped in Africa).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Ivory_Coast_toxic_waste_d...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafigura

[2] https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/a-small-pawn-in-the-game-1.610...

[iancmceachern]

Lots of places still do this, and just burn it in open pits.

Places you would need expect like Tahiti which is a French Overseas Entity, and even Hawaii. There aren't a lot of options in some places.

[fallingknife]

This is mining waste. It's rocks and dirt. You can't burn it.

[salt-thrower]

Not just rocks and dirt. Mining waste is often toxic - heavy metals, acid, that sort of thing.

[iancmceachern]

Some you can, like coal

[fallingknife]

That's the product, not the waste

[iancmceachern]

The earth doesn't care.

I was making the point that the parent commenter made an arbitrary distinction that wasn't even true.

There are other minerals, rather are side effects of mining the true target minerals, that are "burnable". They're used in fireworks to make them different colors.

https://mineralseducationcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/te...