Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Subject "WASTES"
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25 Clean Air Measures for Asia and the Pacific
(2019)Air pollution is not only a major health risk, it also has damaging impacts on the environment and agricultural crop yields. These impacts have significant economic consequences. While existing policies have made progress ... -
Acrylonitrile - Environmental Health Criteria 28
(1983)Acrylonitrile is a colourless, volatile, chemically reactive liquid; it does not occur as a natural product. The monomer is used world-wide, on a large scale, in the manufacture of polymers, fibres, and rubbers and as a ... -
Addressing Marine Plastics: A Roadmap to a Circular Economy
(2019)This document provides an action-oriented strategy by identifying a core set of priority solutions to be implemented by targeted stakeholders from the whole plastics value chain. It aims to reduce the leakage of plastics ... -
African Ministerial Statement to the World Summit on Sustainable Development: Adopted at the African Preparatory Conference for the World Summit on Sustainable Development
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Asia Waste Management Outlook
(2017)The Asia Waste Management Outlook (AWMO), which is regional in nature, is developed to complement the Global Waste Management Outlook (GWMO). This regional outlook provides an overview of the current status, the current ... -
Basel Convention Technical Guidelines on Hazardous Waste: Waste Oils from Petroleum Origins and Sources
(2002)These technical guidelines are principally meant to provide guidance to countries who are building their capacity to manage waste in an environmentally sound and efficient way and in their development of detailed procedures ... -
Case Studies on Tailings Management
(1998)With the cooperation of a large number of experts, ICME has compiled this collection of case studies of tailings management practices in operations in many parts of the world. The first section provides the reader with an ... -
Central Asia Waste Management Outlook
(2017)Central Asia is transforming itself from a region bogged down by mining and industrial waste legacies and poor municipal waste management to a safer and more pleasant place to live through site clean-ups and increasingly ... -
Chemical Analytic Methods of Trichothecene Mycotoxins: Basic Facts about Trichothecenes
(1984)Among the toxins of microscopic fungi a significant place is occupied by trichothecene mycotoxins (trichothecenes) representing a group of chemically related compounds – derivatives of the 12, 13-apoxytrichothe-9-cene. ... -
Chemicals and Waste - Factsheet
(2017)From shampoo to toothpaste, clothing to cosmetics, and light bulbs to food, almost every product we buy involves the use of chemicals in some form or other. Of the over 100,000 chemicals in use today, a significant number ... -
Chemicals and Waste in Latin America and the Caribbean - [Factsheet]
(2020)In Latin America and the Caribbean, UN Environment and the GEF work together to strengthen national capacity for the elimination and sound management of chemicals and wastes. The GEF helps countries in developing best ... -
Children's Rights and the Environment: Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur
(2018)https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/environmental-governance -
Compendium of Technologies for the Recovery of Materials / Energy from End of Life (EoL) Tyres - Final Report
(2016)This compendium describes, the environmental soundly way to recover materials and energy from waste tyres. General and specific technologies for the recovery of materials/energy from waste tyres are introduced to the target ... -
Compendium of Technologies for the Recovery of Materials from WEEE / E-waste
(2017)This compendium describes information on commercially available or near commercially available technologies and associated techniques for resource recovery from WEEE/e-waste and subsequent treatment of residual wastes. The ... -
Consultative Process on Financing Options for Chemicals and Wastes: Final Report on the Implementation of Governing Council decisions SS.XI/8 and 26/7: Report of the Executive Director
(28/12/2011)The present document is the final report of the Executive Director on the consultative process on financing options for chemicals and wastes, as requested by the Governing Council in its decision 26/7 of 24 February 2011. ... -
Consultative Process on Financing Options for Chemicals and Wastes: Implementation of Governing Council decisions SS.XI/8, 26/7 and SS.XII/4: Report of the Executive Director
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A contribution to the global follow-up and review in the 2016 High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on the work of the United Nations Environment Programme
(2018-09-24)https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/environmental-governance -
Converting Waste Plastics to Fuels: Baseline Study Project - Activity II-2: Assessment of Plastic Waste Management Systems and Practices
(2009)complement the Plastic Waste Analysis and Characterization Study conducted in Cebu City. The goal of the data collection for waste plastics and the city solid waste management (SWM) system is to develop a viable plan for ... -
Country Case Study on Sources and Sinks in Morocco : Final Report
(1995)In accordance with Article 4 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all Parties are required to develop, periodically update, publish and make avail-able to the Conference of the Parties, ...