‘Ban the burn’: At-sea Incineration, trans-local activism, and ocean health
This article is about the rise and fall of ocean incineration, a method for the disposal of hazardous chemical waste that was initiated in the late 1960s, developed, tested, and perfected throughout the 1970s, commercialized in the 1980s, and eventually phased out from the 1990s onwards. Ocean incin...
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ftunivleiden:oai:scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl:item_3674614 2024-01-28T10:07:40+01:00 ‘Ban the burn’: At-sea Incineration, trans-local activism, and ocean health Fazzi, D. 2023 https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3674614 https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094231167328 en eng doi:10.1177/00220094231167328 lucris-id: 1270895854 https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3674614 Journal of Contemporary History United States Transatlantic relations Trans-localism Waste Ocean history Article / Letter to editor info:eu-repo/semantics/article Text 2023 ftunivleiden https://doi.org/10.1177/00220094231167328 2024-01-03T23:10:18Z This article is about the rise and fall of ocean incineration, a method for the disposal of hazardous chemical waste that was initiated in the late 1960s, developed, tested, and perfected throughout the 1970s, commercialized in the 1980s, and eventually phased out from the 1990s onwards. Ocean incineration consisted in the offshore destruction of toxic liquid substances in specially designed ships outfitted with high-temperature combustion chambers and high stacks. When this technology broke through, it seemed like a panacea. It heralded the safe disposal of noxious compounds such as organochlorines and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were ubiquitous by-products of petrochemical industrial processes. It promised to minimize private companies’ externalities and ease environmental concerns. But it ultimately failed to provide an alternative to safely disposing of toxic waste. What does explain such a decline? This article answers this question by arguing that the demise of ocean incineration was due to the combination of locally oriented and transnationally driven protests, which emerged across the (North) Atlantic and exposed the dangerous and highly exploitative nature of such a practice. Politics, Culture and National Identities 1789-present Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Leiden University Scholarly Publications Journal of Contemporary History 002200942311673 |
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This article is about the rise and fall of ocean incineration, a method for the disposal of hazardous chemical waste that was initiated in the late 1960s, developed, tested, and perfected throughout the 1970s, commercialized in the 1980s, and eventually phased out from the 1990s onwards. Ocean incineration consisted in the offshore destruction of toxic liquid substances in specially designed ships outfitted with high-temperature combustion chambers and high stacks. When this technology broke through, it seemed like a panacea. It heralded the safe disposal of noxious compounds such as organochlorines and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which were ubiquitous by-products of petrochemical industrial processes. It promised to minimize private companies’ externalities and ease environmental concerns. But it ultimately failed to provide an alternative to safely disposing of toxic waste. What does explain such a decline? This article answers this question by arguing that the demise of ocean incineration was due to the combination of locally oriented and transnationally driven protests, which emerged across the (North) Atlantic and exposed the dangerous and highly exploitative nature of such a practice. Politics, Culture and National Identities 1789-present |
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