strategy
Cooperating with industry in identifying and cleaning-up hazardous waste disposal sites
Implementation:
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.Agenda 21 recommends that governments should promote identification and clean-up of sites of hazardous wastes in collaboration with industry and international organizations. Technologies, expertise and financing should be available for this purpose, as far as possible and when appropriate with the application of the polluter-pays principle.
Broader:
Disposing of hazardous wasteImproving hazardous waste institutionsMaking industry responsible for environmentally sound disposal of its hazardous waste Facilitates:
Cleaning up hazardous waste sites Subjects:
Amenities → CleaningIndustry → Industry
Societal Problems → Hazards
Societal Problems → Waste
Type Classification:
G: Very Specific strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
