JTEPA - A Free Waste Trade Agreement

Greenpeace activists today picketed the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok with banners and barrels stating "Thailand is not Japan's waste bin" in protest against the upcoming free-trade agreement, Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (JTEPA) which will allow Japan to export unprecedented quantities of hazardous waste to Thailand.

Kittikhun Kittiaram, toxics campaigner of Greenpeace Southeast Asia ( right) delivers a document to representative of Japanese Embassy (left).

Greenpeace activists picketed the Japanese Embassy in Bangkok with banners and barrels stating "Thailand is not Japan's waste bin" in protest against the upcoming free-trade agreement, Japan-Thailand Economic Partnership Agreement (JTEPA) which will allow Japan to export unprecedented quantities of hazardous waste to Thailand.