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Compendium of Recycling and Destruction Technologies for Waste Oils
(UNEP, 2012)
Waste oil (used oil) is a growing hazardous waste stream closely linked with rapid industrialization and increased automobile use. Recycling and disposal of waste oils is feasible and will not only avoid the negative impacts ...
A practical guide to landfill management in Pacific Island countries and territories: Volume 1 - Inland-based waste disposal (2nd edition)
(Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), 2010)
Solid waste management is an environmental priority for most islands in the Pacific. Unfortunately, lack of recycling and reduction initiatives, poor waste collection systems, open dumpsites, and environmental pollution ...
Korea Environmental Policy Bulletin - Recyclable Resources Market in Korea
(Ministry of Environment - Korea Environment Institute - Republic of Korea, 2013)
Lately, the optimized waste management system has moved into its stabilization phase, but the quantity of wastes continues to increase, thus accentuating the need to reinforce a policy for promoting the recycling of wastes. ...
Korea Environmental Policy Bulletin - Metal Waste Recycling Plans
(Ministry of Environment - Korea Environment Institute - Republic of Korea, 2011)
It is expected that the amount of metal waste generation would be increased over time. Although precious metals and other nonferrous metals retrievable in metal wastes have huge economic value, such precious metals have ...
Korea Environmental Policy Bulletin - Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
(Ministry of Environment - Korea Environment Institute - Republic of Korea, 2010)
The Korean government introduced its Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) system in 2000 that strengthened producers responsibility from the production stage up to collection and recycling. EPR system is applied to four ...
Estado del Ambiente y Perspectivas - GEO Rosario
(Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA) para el Intendencia Municipal de Colonia, Uruguay, 2011)
El proceso de preparación del Informe GEO Rosario recorrió todas las fases programadas, y concluyó con un texto analítico basado en la mejor información disponible y el aporte de especialistas y el saber local, y con un ...
State of the Environment Report - Israel
(Ministry of Environmental Protection, State of Israel, 2010)
This English document presents selected indicators based on a more comprehensive report in Hebrew which compiles data on more than one hundred different indicators dealing with the main environmental resources: land, air, ...
Sources, Fate and Effects of Microplastics in the Marine Environment: A Global Assessment
(International Maritime Organization (IMO), 2015)
The GESAMP assessment focuses on a category of plastic debris termed ‘microplastics’. These small pieces of plastic may enter the ocean as such, or may result from the fragmentation of larger items through the influence ...
State of the Environment Report: Charts and Figures - Portugal
(Portuguese Environment Agency, 2012)
Portugal State of the Environment Report 2012, Charts and Figures.
Technology, Finance and Statistics for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific
(2015)
As this report points out, mostly the news is good. In 2001, it may have seemed a daunting task to halve the 1990 poverty rate − the proportion of people living on less than $1.25 per day. In fact Asia and the Pacific has ...