Ensuring environmentally sound waste processing

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.

1. Providing adequate waste processing
2. Managing wastes
3. Improving solid waste management

1. Urging countries to dispose of their own waste in their own territory
2. Training in pollution control, waste treatment and disposal technologies
3. Training in monitoring and controlling pollution caused by waste
4. Strengthening national capacity for safe treatment and disposal of waste
5. Separating components of urban solid waste
6. Reporting on key aspects of waste management and disposal
7. Regulating transboundary movement and disposal of waste
8. Providing environmental monitoring equipment in development aid programmes
9. Providing environmental infrastructure for human settlements
10. Preparing environmental guidelines for safe discharge of waste
11. Planning and constructing of new waste treatment facilities
12. Installing waste treatment systems
13. Informing about techniques for the safe disposal of waste
14. Improving operation and maintenance of waste treatment facilities
15. Improving national waste management and control policies
16. Facilitating transfer of industrial waste treatment technology
17. Establishing international clearing house for information on waste management and disposal
18. Establishing exchange programmes for waste management staff
19. Ensuring proper disposal of urban sewage
20. Ensuring proper disposal of manure from intensive livestock operations
21. Ensuring environmentally sound waste treatment and disposal
22. Empowering pollution control agencies
23. Developing plans for the management and disposal of human waste
24. Conducting research on critical problems of waste management and disposal
25. Assessing environmental impact of waste

1. Strengthening national and local environmental protection agencies
2. Preparing national and local environmental quality standards

1. Wastage
2. Maltreatment

1. Agenda 21