"When the Khian Sea sailed the earth in the late 1980s, it was looking for a place to dump its incinerated waste from Philadelphia. After the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Panama, Bermuda, Guinea Bissau and the Dutch Antilles all refused to accept the waste, the barge finally dumped 4,000 tons of what it called "topsoil fertilizer"—when it was too toxic to be used as such, since it contained dioxins, furans, and high levels of lead and cadmium—near the Haitian town of Gonaives.