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Improving hazardous waste institutions

Improving hazardous waste institutions

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 promoting and strengthening institutional capacities in hazardous waste management.

Broader

Improving hazardous waste management

Narrower

Providing education on hazardous waste management in government and industry

Providing education materials on effects of hazardous waste

Preparing health criteria on hazardous waste prevention

Improving hazardous waste management programmes to meet health and environment norms

Expanding knowledge resources on health implications of hazardous wastes

Assessing health and environmental risks of hazardous waste

Taking measures for environmentally sound disposal of hazardous waste in developing countries

Supporting national programmes to monitor and control hazardous wastes

Strengthening research centres on hazardous waste management

Publishing information on companies which generate hazardous waste

Monitoring adverse effects of hazardous wastes

Increasing support for hazardous waste research in developing countries

Increasing public participation in hazardous waste management

Increasing international cooperation centres on hazardous waste management

Improving training on prevention and control of hazardous waste health risks

Improving capacity to assess hazardous waste risks

Implementing international conventions on hazardous waste

Identifying contaminated sites

Identifying best available technology for hazardous waste management

Expanding research on environmentally sound management of hazardous waste

Expanding international information exchange on hazardous waste

Expanding hazardous waste research in developing countries

Establishing regulations requiring environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes

Establishing inventories of hazardous waste

Establishing hazardous waste treatment centres

Establishing databases on populations exposed to hazardous waste

Ensuring safe export of hazardous waste

Ensuring military applies environmental norms for hazardous waste treatment

Educating about national hazardous waste management

Developing industry-based institutions on hazardous waste handling

Developing guidelines for identifying hazardous waste

Cooperating with industry in identifying and cleaning-up hazardous waste disposal sites

Conducting training on hazardous waste management technology in developing countries

Conducting research on the health effects of hazardous wastes in developing countries

Conducting research on critical problems of waste management and disposal

Conducting environmental audits to assess hazardous waste management in industry

Combining treatment/disposal facilities for hazardous waste in small and medium-sized enterprises

Assessing hazardous waste management needs of small and medium-sized enterprises

Facilitates

Providing public information on hazardous waste issues

Cleaning up hazardous waste sites

Value

Web link

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Sustainable Development Goal #17: Partnerships to achieve the Goal

Metadata

Database

Global strategies

Type

(C) Cross-sectoral strategies

Subject

Societal problems » Hazards

Societal problems » Waste

Development » Reform

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

Last update

Dec 3, 2024