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With funding support from Norway and Switzerland, the Household Waste Partnership Working Group meets to start working towards a guidance document on environmentally sound management.

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El objetivo del proyecto es la capacitación de técnicos municipales en la gestión ambientalmente adecuada de desechos peligrosos, atendiendo las necesidades de estos actores locales y fortaleciendo la articulación con la Autoridades Competentes en el cumplimiento de los objetivos del Convenio de Basilea. Más allá de las responsabilidades específicas que las legislaciones nacionales les asignan a los diferentes actores, los municipios tienen un importante rol en la gestión de los residuos peligrosos por estar integrados al territorio donde se generan, almacenan, transportan y eventualmente se reciclan, tratan y disponen dichos residuos.

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Municipality Project aimed to develop a new partnership for local hazardous waste mechanisms on the environmentally sound management, namely Type II Agreement (public-private partnership) between all stakeholders on hazardous waste management. BCRC China especially targeted to develop Type II Agreement in Qingdao, P.R.China, which is one of the industrial and organizational cities in China. Qingdao faces various environmental issues, e.g. hazardous waste management, wastewater treatment, etc. BCRC China has assisted Qingdao to establish Type II Agreement for hazardous waste
management and E-waste management. This approach was one of the first instances to have established Type II Agreement in Asia and the Pacific region and good instance to undertake hazardous waste management by a public-private partnership.

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