Browsing Publications and Documents by Subject "WASTE DISPOSAL"
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Basel Convention 'Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Management of Waste Consisting of Elemental Mercury and Wastes Containing or Contaminated with Mercury'
(2012)The present guidelines provide guidance for the environmentally sound management (ESM) of wastes consisting of elemental mercury and wastes containing or contaminated with mercury, pursuant to decisions VIII/33, IX/15 and ... -
Basel Convention on the Control of Trans-boundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal: Regional Training of Law Enforcement Officials
(2011)This PowerPoint presentation is based on a training in Ramallah, Palestine, to law enforcement officials, on the Basel Convention. -
Development of a City Waste Management Strategy for Negombo City: Inception workshop
(21/01/2019)IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET) and UNEP-IETC undertook preliminary discussions with the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment (MOMDE) in March 2018. Negombo city needs ... -
First Sub-Regional Workshop for Implementing the Global Waste Management Goals Towards Addressing SDGs in South Asia - Report of the Proceedings
(26/03/2019)Home to roughly 1.8 billion people, South Asia generates approximately 334 million tonnes of waste per year of which 174 million tonnes (57%) is organic in content. In addition to the increase in municipal solid waste, ... -
Inception Workshop: Mercury Storage and Disposal Project in Mexico and Panama - Final Report
(2012)The purpose of the workshop, as it is shown in the agenda (Annex I) was to ensure a good understanding of the objectives and scope of the mercury storage and disposal project in Mexico and Panama, as well as the expected ... -
Introduction to Terms Relevant to the Discussion of Mercury Storage and Disposal
(2011)In order to assist discussions within the Partnership on Supply and Storage, important terms with relevance to storage of elemental mercury and to storage and disposal of waste consisting of el-emental mercury and waste ... -
National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants: Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
(2017)The National Environmental Protection Agency of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan has prepared this National Implementation Plan (NIP) in partial fulfilment of its obligations under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent ... -
Proceedings of the UNEP/ESCAP/FAO Workshop on Agricultural and Agro-Industrial Residue Utilization in the Asian and Pacific Region
(1979)In mid-1979 a project for the Asian and the Pacific Region was initiated by ESCAP, UNEP, and FAO as a continuation of effects to identify Opportunities for agricultural and agro-industrial residue utilization and to stimulate ... -
Project for Storage and Disposal of Mercury in Panama: Final Report
(2013)Results of the analysis of the regulatory framework determined that there are no specific legal rules in the Republic of Panama with environmental standards that establish maximum permissible mercury emissions to protect ... -
Storing and Disposing Excess Mercury in South America: Advancing National Initiatives in Argentina and Uruguay - Final Report of the “Mercury Storage and Disposal Two Countries Project in Latin America”
(2012)The projects were aimed at reducing the release of mercury into the environment by reducing mercury supply, and finding environmentally sound storage solutions. Regional processes were initiated in order to support the ... -
Technical Assistance Models for Greening the Manufacturing Sector - Switch Africa Green
(2019)•The industrial symbiosis is multi country project implemented in six African countries namely: Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mauritius, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda. • The Project commenced on January, 2016 and ended on 30 th ...