GenevaLunch » toxic waste http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Twitter helps restore freedom of the presshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/14/twitter-helps-restore-freedom-of-the-press/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/10/14/twitter-helps-restore-freedom-of-the-press/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:20:17 +0000 Sean Ecker http://genevalunch.com/?p=29796 GenevaLunch.com A concerted effort by twitter users 13 October has forced a London law firm to alter the terms of a high court injunction which prohibited the Guardian newspaper from reporting a story on toxic waste dumped off the coast of Ivory Coast. Less than an hour after “twitterati” and bloggers broke the news themselves, the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/29/uk-to-take-back-hazardous-waste-from-brazil/feed/ 0 Three charged in case of UK waste shipped to Brazilhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/three-charged-in-case-of-uk-waste-shipped-to-brazil/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2009/07/24/three-charged-in-case-of-uk-waste-shipped-to-brazil/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:34:11 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=22935 GenevaLunch.com Update 12:23  Geneva, Switzerland and Brazil (GenevaLunch) – Brazil is being widely reported as saying it will lodge a complaint with the Geneva-based World Trade Organization over illegal waste shipments from Britain, the government announced Friday 24 July. A large number of containers (Ed. note: reports vary from 41 to 99) of possibly toxic waste [...]

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