The (PFAS)T and the Furious: Applying Hazardous Waste Management Frameworks to the Global Presence of PFAS

Authors

Maggie Clark, High Court of American SamoaFollow

ORCID (Links to author’s additional scholarship at ORCID.org)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3111-2043

Abstract

International treaties governing transboundary hazardous waste are a result of the theory of sustainable development. These conventions have developed over several decades but still lack authority over one of the biggest waste exporters: the United States. As forever chemicals like GenX become a spotlight for future waste regulation, can these conventions project a framework to apply to the currently unregulated chemical that predominantly travels across the Atlantic Ocean between the Netherlands and the United States? This Article seeks to apply various transboundary waste international laws to the market for GenX, identify problems, and propose solutions.

Recommended Citation

Maggie Clark, The (PFAS)T and the Furious: Applying Hazardous Waste Management Frameworks to the Global Presence of PFAS, 87 J. Air L. & Com. 533 (2022)