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Disposing of hazardous waste
Broader:
Improving hazardous waste management
Narrower:
Disposing of waste in salt mines
Establishing hazardous waste treatment centres
Banning disposal of low level radioactive waste at sea
Identifying and preparing profiles on hazardous wastes
Developing methods for permanent disposal of nuclear waste
Making industry responsible for environmentally sound disposal of its hazardous waste
Cooperating with industry in identifying and cleaning-up hazardous waste disposal sites
Supporting international codes for the safe management and disposal of radioactive waste
Taking measures for environmentally sound disposal of hazardous waste in developing countries
Reducing amount of electronic scrap
Cleaning up hazardous waste sites
Constrained by:
Campaigning against the export of toxic materials
Campaigning against hazardous waste disposal
Facilitates:
Storing intractable waste
Facilitated by:
Taxing use of toxic products
Reducing amount of hazardous waste for disposal
Problems:
Unsafe hazardous waste disposal
Illicit discharge of dangerous substances
Intractable waste
Values:
Hazard
Wastage
Organizations:
Secretariat for the Basel Convention
Basel Action Network
Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal
References:
Burkholder, H C: High Level Nuclear Waste Disposal
Subjects:
Societal Problems
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Hazards
Societal Problems
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Waste
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals: