Browsing Knowledge Repository by Subject "hazardous waste"
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A manual for water and waste management: what the tourism industry can do to improve its performance
(UNEP, 2003)This manual provides guidelines and examples of how tourism operations can achieve positive results and minimize harm to a community's ecological and physical systems. Specific case studies highlight larger hotel chains, ... -
A practical guide to landfill management in Pacific Island countries and territories: Volume 1 - Inland-based waste disposal (2nd edition)
(Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2010)Solid waste management is an environmental priority for most islands in the Pacific. Unfortunately, lack of recycling and reduction initiatives, poor waste collection systems, open dumpsites, and environmental pollution ... -
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes
(UNEP, 2011)The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal was adopted in 1989 and it came into force in 1992. It is the most comprehensive global environmental agreement on ... -
Converting Waste Plastics into a Resource - Compendium of Technologies
(, 2009)This document is a compilation of technologies for the conversion of plastics into fuel which are in commercial use, under pilot implementation and under laboratory testing. It is aimed to raise awareness on the available ... -
Converting Waste Plastics into a Resource-Assessment Guidelines
(UNEP, 2009)This document pertains to the methodology for waste plastics characterization and quantification (mainly for conversion into resource/fuel) and the assessment of current waste management system including the identification ... -
Converting Waste Plastics into a Resource-Assessment Guidelines
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2009)Economic growth and the change of consumption and production patterns are resulting in rapid increase in generation of waste plastics in the world. The world's annual consumption of plastic materials has increased from ... -
Desk study on the environment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
(United Nations Environment Programme, 2003)The aim of this desk study is to outline the state of the environment and identify major areas of environmental damage requiring urgent attention. It is based on a review of available, relevant studies and interviews with ... -
Developing Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan-Training Manual Vol. 1: Waste Characterization and Quantification with Projections for Future
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2009)This book is the first volume in the series of training manuals on developing integrated solid waste management (ISWM) plans. It aims to build the capacity of practitioners and policy makers in waste characterization and ... -
Developing Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan-Training Manual Vol. 2: Assessment of Current Waste Management System and Gaps therein
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2009)This book is the second volume in the series of training manuals on developing integrated solid waste management (ISWM) plans. It aims to build the capacity of practitioners and policy makers for assessing current waste ... -
Developing Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan-Training Manual Vol. 3: Targets and Issues of Concern for ISWM
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2009)This book is the third volume in the series of training manuals on developing integrated solid waste management (ISWM) plans. It aims to build the capacity of practitioners and policy makers for setting targets for ISWM ... -
Developing Integrated Solid Waste Management Plan-Training Manual Vol. 4: ISWM Plan
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2009)This book is the fourth and last volume in the series of training manuals on developing integrated solid waste management (ISWM) plans. It aims to build the capacity of practitioners and policy makers for developing a ... -
e-Waste Management in South Asia - Scoping exercise
(Development Alternatives (DA)South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP), 2007)Development Alternatives (DA) and South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP) on 22 September 2007 jointly organised the scoping exercise on e-waste management in South Asia in New Delhi, India. The workshop was ... -
Environmental Assessment of the Gaza Strip following the escalation of hostilities in December 2008-January 2009
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2009)This report and its findings are based on field work by a team of international experts deployed by UNEP following its Governing Council's Decision 25/12 in February 2009, requesting UNEP to assess the environmental damage ... -
Guidance document on transboundary movement of hazardous wastes destined for recovery operations
(UNEP, 1995)Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements on Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal -
Marine litter: trash that kills
(UNEP, 2003)Marine litter is a vicious killer of marine mammals, seabirds and many other life forms in the marine and coastal environment. It also entails substantial economic costs and losses to, e.g., fisherman, boat owners in ... -
Our Planet: Making Our Future Chemical-Safe
(United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2015)Chemicals are used in almost every area of the world economy. The future of sustainable development is therefore inseparable from the way chemicals are managed from their design to production, use and disposal. In this ... -
Reporting and transmission of information under the Basel Convention? for the year 1997
(UNEP, 2000)Part I of the compilation document includes information under the headings, national definitions, limit or ban on import, limit or ban on export, notification of transboundary movement, disposals which did not proceed as ... -
Selection, Design, and Implementation of Economic Instruments in the Solid Waste Management Sector in Kenya: The Case of Plastic Bags
(UNEP, 2005)The generation of solid waste has become an increasing environmental and public health problem everywhere in the world, but particularly in developing countries. The fast expansion of urban, agricultural and industrial ... -
Technical Guidelines on Hazardous Waste from the Production and Use of Organic Solvents (Y6)
(1997)These technical guidelines are principally meant to provide guidance to countries who are building their capacity to manage waste in an environmentally sound and efficient way and in their development of detailed procedures ... -
UNEP 2008 annual report
(UNEP, 2009)This summary of UNEP's activities in 2008 provides an overview of the organization's contribution to the fight against climate change in a year in which unequivocal evidence established that global warming is the defining ...