Conducting environmental audits to assess hazardous waste management in industry

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 conducting environmental audits of existing industries to improve in-plant regimes for the management of hazardous waste.

1. Making industry responsible for environmentally sound disposal of its hazardous waste
2. Improving hazardous waste institutions
3. Conducting environmental audits
4. Advancing industrial environmental management

1. Developing national strategies to control transboundary air pollution

1. Wastage
2. Mismanagement
3. Hazard