The substantial failure of the efforts made by the
International Community to regulate international
transport is surely due to economic factors (Fiore et al.,
2008; 2012; Oreste and Castellano, 2012; Blengini et al.,
2012; Sumit, 2009; Mathur and Siddharth, 2009), but
experts in the sector (Carosso, 2010) have already
underlined, although only with reference to the old
international road transport regulations of hazardous
waste, the intricacy of these regulations and the nature of
their uncertain connection with other provisions on
waste.