Preventing production of hazardous wastes

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. Preventing waste
2. Improving hazardous waste management
3. Achieving cleaner production

1. Urging industry to publish information on their management of hazardous waste
2. Treating industrial wastes at source
3. Taking an integrated approach to environmental protection in national laws
4. Supporting industry training programmes on waste management
5. Supporting industry in phasing-out processes generating high risk hazardous waste
6. Supporting industry in building cleaner production into product design
7. Supporting industry demonstration projects on cleaner production
8. Strengthening cooperation on monitoring effects of hazardous waste management
9. Setting up technology assessment centres
10. Setting guidelines for cost/benefit assessment of cleaner production
11. Regulating industrial environmental performance
12. Preparing inventories in developing countries on hazardous waste production
13. Making industry responsible for environmentally sound disposal of its hazardous waste
14. Increasing research on cost-effective alternatives for hazardous processes
15. Increasing government / industry cooperation on waste minimization
16. Including cleaner production guidelines in industry training programmes
17. Improving standards to encourage use of environmentally sound recycled materials
18. Improving coordination of policy on hazardous waste
19. Funding cleaner technology transfer to developing countries
20. Funding cleaner technology research
21. Facilitating transfer of clean technology
22. Facilitating transfer of clean low-waste production processes
23. Expanding public information on cleaner production
24. Establishing training centres on environmentally sound technologies
25. Establishing facilities in each country to handle its own hazardous wastes
26. Eliminating disease-breeding waste
27. Cooperating with industry on guidelines of conduct for cleaner production
28. Assessing effectiveness of existing information systems on hazardous waste
29. Adopting national programmes to reduce hazardous waste

1. Reducing amount of hazardous waste for disposal

1. Developing conventions on transboundary movement of hazardous waste

1. Reducing amount of electronic scrap

1. Wastage
2. Unproductivity
3. Underproduction
4. Overproduction
5. Hazard

1. Agenda 21