strategy
Making industry responsible for environmentally sound disposal of its hazardous waste
Context:
This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.Article 7 of the [Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to the Environment] (Lugano 1993), states: The operator of a site for the permanent deposit of waste at the time when damage caused by waste deposited at that site becomes known, shall be liable for this damage. Should the damage caused by waste deposited before the closure of such a site become known after that closure, the last operator shall be liable.
Claim:
Governments should establish regulations setting out industry's ultimate responsibility for environmentally sound disposal of the hazardous waste its activities generate. Broader:
Reducing industrial wastesDisposing of hazardous wastePreventing production of hazardous wastesApplying polluter-pays principle Narrower:
Developing industry-based institutions on hazardous waste handlingReturning radioactive waste to the supplier for safe storage or disposalApplying measures for waste disposal costs to be paid by the waste generatorsUrging industry to publish information on their management of hazardous wasteConducting environmental audits to assess hazardous waste management in industrySupporting industry in phasing-out processes generating high risk hazardous wasteCooperating with industry in identifying and cleaning-up hazardous waste disposal sites Facilitates:
Cleaning up hazardous waste sites Facilitated by:
Enhancing corporate environmental responsibilityFacilitating public access to justice in environmental mattersProviding education on hazardous waste management in government and industry Subjects:
Industry → Industry Societal Problems → Hazards
Societal Problems → Waste
Environment → Environment
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
