Browsing UNEP Knowledge Repository by Subject "waste recovery"

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    • Converting Waste Agricultural Biomass into a Resource-Compendium of Technologies 

      United Nations Environment Programme (United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2009)
      Globally, 140 billion metric tons of biomass wastes are generated every year from agriculture equivalent to about 50 billion tons of oil. As raw materials, biomass wastes have attractive potentials for both large-scale ...

    • Technical Guidelines on Hazardous Waste from the Production and Use of Organic Solvents (Y6) 

      United Nations Environment Programme; Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements on Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (1997)
      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 ...