Bangladesh to withdraw from global treaty on shipbreaking waste management

In 1986, a ship named Pelican, loaded with fly ash, set sail from the port of Philadelphia in the United States. The ship drifted in the sea for two years.No country allowed it to anchor because it carried 14,000 tonnes of polluted ash harmful to the environment and human health.On a morning in October 1988, the captain of the ship announced that they had dumped the ash off the coast of a…