before a decision is made is a critical issue,

在出台之前是很重要的
and this can be adjusted if you're designing law.

如果你在制定法律它可能需要调整
Also national sovereignty to regulate foreign hazards.

国家主权也要规范外交障碍
There are a variety of international standards set up

种种国际标准的建立
to prevent the export of hazardous waste.

是为了防止危害性废物的出口
So there's quite a controversy brewing right now

所以现在有一场
about electronic waste being transmitted,

关于转排放电子废弃物的争论即将发生
particularly to Asian nations, which are trying to recycle the

特别是转排放给亚洲国家它们试图从
precious metals out of computer equipment, old cell phones.

电脑设备和旧手机中回收贵重金属
And even though there may be only seventy-five cents per

虽然就这些金属的价值而言
cell phone in terms of the value of those metals,

每部手机可能只值七十五美分
there are some three dozen different metals that can be

但是从电子设备中却能提取出