Browsing Manuals, Guides and Toolkits by Subject "WASTE MANAGEMENT"
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The 2022 International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies - #TheAirWeShare: A Practical Guide for Individuals, Cities, Governments, Schools & Universities, Businesses, Civil Society
(2022-09)On September 7, 2022, the world will celebrate the third International Day of Clean Air for blue skies calling for global action to combat air pollution, one of the greatest health and environmental challenges of our time. ... -
Asbestos Handling and Disposal Guidelines: International Best Practice
(2020)Any asbestos product or material that is ready for disposal can be defined as asbestos waste. This may also include contaminated building materials, tools that cannot be decontaminated, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) ... -
Basel Convention Technical Guidelines on Hazardous Waste: Waste Oils from Petroleum Origins and Sources
(2002)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 ... -
CCET Guideline Series on Intermediate Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Technologies: Composting
(2020)This guideline focuses on the introduction of composting projects based on source separation of organic waste and aerobic fermentation at plants for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management in the cities of developing Asia. ... -
Disaster Waste Management Guidelines
(2013)These guidelines provide advice and tools to overcome these challenges and manage disaster waste in emergency and take out early recovery phases. They are targeted at implementers of disaster waste management projects. ... -
E-waste Vol. III: WEEE / E-waste “Take-back System”
(2012)This third manual focuses on WEEE/E-waste collection, transport and the financial mechanisms for funding these efforts.It is intended to build the capacity of practitioners and decision makers to guide and assist them in ... -
Estimating Mercury Use and Documenting Practices in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) - Methods and Tools Version 1.0
(2017)The ASGM baseline guidebook and toolkit enable the reader to: 1. Create a comprehensive national overview of ASGM practices; 2. Design a baseline research plan that aligns with allotted resources; 3.,Collect relevant data ... -
A Guidance Manual for Policymakers and Regulators for the Environmentally Sound Management of Waste or Used Lead Acid Batteries in Africa
(2022)This Guidance Manual provides an overview of the steps that governments and stakeholders can take to evaluate the present state of waste lead acid battery (WLAB) management and, as warranted, introduce policies and regulations ... -
Guidance on Best Available Techniques and Best Environmental Practices
(2019)This document sets out guidance on controlling emission of mercury and mercury compounds to air from point sources, as adopted by the Conference of the Parties at its first meeting in September 2017.Paragraph 8 of article ... -
Guidelines for Framework Legislation for Integrated Waste Management
(2016)The purpose of these Guidelines is to support countries with clear advice for their efforts to introduce or enhance their waste management legislation. The principles these the Guidelines are based on consider ways that ... -
Guidelines for Sanitation Management in Asia and Africa
(2006)This report presents information on the status, policies, regulations and actions (including master plan) in the Asia and Africa for sanitation (wastewater) management. Recently, it has been estimated that more than half ... -
Important and Desirable Environmental Actions (IDEAs) for Selection and Establishment of Resilient and Efficient UN Offices: Benchmarks for Evaluation and Comparative Analysis
(2021-09)IDEAs guidance aims to define an efficient and resilient office building or space in the UN context. It targets the earliest possible stages of office establishment from setting UN requirements as part of preliminary brief ... -
Kitchen Lessons: Food Memories - The Edible Schoolyard Project
(2020)Food can be a pathway to our past, our heritage, and our history. One way for us to understand how food can link us to our past is to speak to people who have been around a little longer than we have. The stories, practices, ... -
Legal and Policy Guidance on Addressing Marine Litter in Malaysia: Gap Analysis and Needs Assessment
(2021-11)This report aims to provide guidance to strengthen national regulatory frameworks in Malaysia through the conduct of a gap analysis, needs assessment and prioritization of legal frameworks to seek to address marine litter. ... -
Port Reception Facilities in the NOWPAP Region
(Marine Environmental Emergency Preparedness and Response Regional Activity Centre the Northwest Pacific Action Plan (NOWPAP MERRAC), 2009)These guidelines were designed to assist local organizations, local governments and NOWPAP member states by providing information on port collection facilities as submitted by the member states or collected from the ... -
Publicity Toolkit: Announcing the Funding of a New Project on Chemicals and Wastes Management
(2022-01)The Special Programme, also known as the Chemicals and Waste Management Programme, provides support to developing countries and countries with economies in transition to enhance their sustainable institutional capacity to ... -
Responsible Production Training Package: Trainers support package on Responsible Production and Chemical Hazard Management for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
(2009)The package is intending at raising awareness to chemical hazards and risks, and to the benefits of systematical chemical safety management, within a value-chain approach. For teaching the factual knowledge base of the ... -
Responsible Production: A Framework for Chemical Hazard Management for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
(2009)The many guides and tools available in this approach for chemical hazard management can be gathered into three groups: safer production - operational and management systems and process guidance and tools; APELL (Awareness ... -
Saving the Scraps: Reducing Food Waste in the Kitchen - The Edible Schoolyard Project
(2020)Valuing every bit of the food that has been produced means taking it to its full potential, making every bite a delight. This very approach has given us some of the world’s most delicious, iconic dishes. Think about French ... -
Special Programme Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning Toolkit
(2020)This Toolkit is designed to guide funding recipients (Country Projects) through the project monitoring and reporting processes indicated in the Strategy. It has been developed to help countries in their implementation of ...
