Thirty years ago today, September 22, 1995 (August 28, 1995 in the lunar calendar), the amendment to the Basel Convention was adopted. The official name of the Basel Convention is the Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal. It was adopted on March 22, 1989 at the World Environmental Protection Conference held by the United Nations Environment Program in Basel, Switzerland, and officially entered into force in May 1992. On September 22, 1995, representatives of more than 100 countries adopted amendments to the Basel Convention in Geneva. The amendment prohibits developed countries from exporting hazardous wastes to developing countries for final disposal, and stipulates that developed countries will stop exporting hazardous wastes for recycling to developing countries before the end of 1997. my country signed the Convention on March 22, 1990. The Basel Convention aims to curb the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes, especially the export and transfer of hazardous wastes to developing countries. The convention requires countries to minimize the amount of hazardous wastes and store and treat them locally as much as possible in the most environmentally friendly way. The Convention clearly stipulates that if it is necessary to move wastes across borders due to environmental protection considerations, the country exporting hazardous wastes must inform the importing country and relevant countries in advance of the quantity and nature of the wastes; when moving hazardous wastes across borders, the exporting country must hold written approval from the government of the importing country. The convention also calls on developed and developing countries to strengthen international cooperation in the field of hazardous waste disposal through various channels such as technology transfer, exchange of intelligence and training of technicians. Hazardous waste refers to productive waste and domestic waste that is generally recognized internationally as having one or more of the characteristics of explosive, flammability, corrosiveness, chemical reactivity, acute toxicity, chronic toxicity, ecotoxicity and infectivity. The former includes waste, waste residue, wastewater and waste gas, etc., and the latter includes waste food, waste paper, waste cans and cans, waste plastics and waste daily necessities, etc. These wastes pose harm to the environment and human health. According to estimates by international environmental protection organizations, at present, more than 10 billion tons of waste are produced in the world every year, of which more than two-thirds are produced in industrially developed countries. Only a very small part of these wastes can currently be recycled. The United States is the country that produces the largest amount of garbage in the world, producing more than 200 million tons of domestic garbage and more than 2.2 billion tons of industrial waste a year, with an annual per capita output of about 800 kilograms of garbage. Since the 1980s, industrially developed countries have enacted increasingly strict laws to protect their own environment, and the cost of disposing of hazardous wastes in various countries has become increasingly high. Therefore, the governments of some Western developed countries have implemented policies that harm others and benefit themselves, condone, acquiesced and supported their companies to transfer hazardous wastes to other countries. The United States is the world's largest exporter of hazardous waste, dumping more than 2 million tons of hazardous waste abroad every year. Developing countries are limited by economic conditions and technological levels, and are the biggest victims of transboundary activities of hazardous wastes. The vast number of developing countries strongly condemn developed countries for beggar-thy-neighbor and passing on pollution. More than 100 developing countries, including my country, have explicitly banned the import of hazardous wastes. In 1991, the Organization of African Unity Conference of Ministers of Environment decided to ban the import of hazardous wastes by African countries and decided to block any hazardous wastes transshipped through Africa.