In addition to the formal "export" of trash including electronic trash and other hazardous garbage to Asia, the outsourcing of electronics manufacturing to Asia can also be considered as an "export" of pollution and exposure to hazardous materials. One expects garbage to go out of the contiguous U.S. The news that trash from Honolulu could be sent to Washington State muddies the waters. Let's hope there is no "Garbage Spill" over the ocean.
The order was issued Thursday by U.S. District Judge Edward Shea of Spokane, Wash. He questioned whether the U.S. Department of Agriculture had adequately assessed the environmental impacts of the planned shipments.
Hawaiian Waste Systems LLC was to have begun shipping the trash last November. The latest start date was Friday.
The Yakama Nation and several environmental groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Spokane to stop the shipments to a landfill in the eastern Washington town of Roosevelt.
The lawsuit named the department, which approved plans for shipments of plastic-wrapped bales of waste."
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