Improving hazardous waste institutions

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.

1. Improving hazardous waste management
2. Improving

1. Taking measures for environmentally sound disposal of hazardous waste in developing countries
2. Supporting national programmes to monitor and control hazardous wastes
3. Strengthening research centres on hazardous waste management
4. Publishing information on companies which generate hazardous waste
5. Providing education on hazardous waste management in government and industry
6. Providing education materials on effects of hazardous waste
7. Preparing health criteria on hazardous waste prevention
8. Monitoring adverse effects of hazardous wastes
9. Increasing support for hazardous waste research in developing countries
10. Increasing public participation in hazardous waste management
11. Increasing international cooperation centres on hazardous waste management
12. Improving training on prevention and control of hazardous waste health risks
13. Improving hazardous waste management programmes to meet health and environment norms
14. Improving capacity to assess hazardous waste risks
15. Implementing international conventions on hazardous waste
16. Identifying contaminated sites
17. Identifying best available technology for hazardous waste management
18. Expanding research on environmentally sound management of hazardous waste
19. Expanding knowledge resources on health implications of hazardous wastes
20. Expanding international information exchange on hazardous waste
21. Expanding hazardous waste research in developing countries
22. Establishing regulations requiring environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes
23. Establishing inventories of hazardous waste
24. Establishing hazardous waste treatment centres
25. Establishing databases on populations exposed to hazardous waste
26. Ensuring safe export of hazardous waste
27. Ensuring military applies environmental norms for hazardous waste treatment
28. Educating about national hazardous waste management
29. Developing industry-based institutions on hazardous waste handling
30. Developing guidelines for identifying hazardous waste
31. Cooperating with industry in identifying and cleaning-up hazardous waste disposal sites
32. Conducting training on hazardous waste management technology in developing countries
33. Conducting research on the health effects of hazardous wastes in developing countries
34. Conducting research on critical problems of waste management and disposal
35. Conducting environmental audits to assess hazardous waste management in industry
36. Combining treatment/disposal facilities for hazardous waste in small and medium-sized enterprises
37. Assessing health and environmental risks of hazardous waste
38. Assessing hazardous waste management needs of small and medium-sized enterprises

1. Providing public information on hazardous waste issues
2. Cleaning up hazardous waste sites

1. Wastage
2. Hazard

1. Agenda 21