The Basel Convention Regional Center for South America launches protocol for the certification of recycling plants managing plastic materials.

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The COP 10 meeting presents a unique opportunity to present to the Rio+20 conference with a concrete example of how transformative environmental...

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The project consists of designing, implementing and disseminating a methodology applicable to various currents of hazardous wastes by means of a Pilot Project with three hazardous wastes streams applied in Brazil and with the participation of various stakeholders. This methodology will be adjusted and prepared under the form of guidelines to be disseminated in the region through the Coordinating, South American, Central American and Caribbean BCRC and the National Cleaner Production Centres-UNIDO.

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At the third meeting of the Expert Group on best available techniques (BAT) and best environmental practices (BEP) in Tokyo in October 2004, UNEP Chemicals foreshadowed a series of regional consultations on the draft guidance to assist countries prepare for the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention (COP-1) to be held in May of 2005. It was considered that successful COP consideration, and subsequent use of the guidelines, would depend on participants’ understanding of the issues. It was important also that the guidance be representative of all regions.

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For an effective implementation of waste prevention and minimisation it should be envisaged to use the experiences of different regions or countries. Thus the know-how, skills, processes and technologies should be transferred from one country or region of the world to another if appropriate. The prerequisites for a transfer are the uniformity of terminology, information about concepts and instruments as well as knowledge about the role of important groups and differences. Moreover, measures to be transferred need to be evaluated by corresponding indicators. This scoping paper “Transfer of national experiences with waste prevention and minimisation to a trans-regional or an international level” generally addresses these issues.

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