Increasing government / industry cooperation on waste minimization

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 work with industry on sector-by-sector cleaner production and hazardous waste minimization campaigns, as well as on the reduction of such wastes and other emissions.

1. Reducing industrial wastes
2. Preventing production of hazardous wastes
3. Achieving cleaner production

1. Informing about industrial development decisions affecting transboundary air pollution
2. Increasing industrial cooperation to control transboundary water pollution
3. Increasing cooperation among enterprises on cleaner production technology

1. Controlling transboundary air pollution

1. Developing national policy to control transboundary air pollution

1. Wastage
2. Self-government
3. Noncooperation
4. Government
5. Cooperation