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movement of hazardous wastes and other wastes and their disposal
including illegal traffic in those wastes.
1.2 Rio Conference
The problem of managing hazardous wastes was discussed during the
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, which took
place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June 1992. It was included in Agenda
21, which is one of the outcome of the Rio Conference. Chapter 20 of
Agenda 21 talks of environmentally sound management of hazardous
waste. Effective control of the generation, storage, treatment, recycling
and reuse, transport, recovery and disposal of hazardous wastes is,
according to the Agenda 21, of paramount importance for proper health,
environmental protection and natural resources management, and
sustainable development. To prevent generation of hazardous wastes and
the rehabilitation of contaminated sites are the key elements, and both
require knowledge, experienced people, facilities, financial resources,
technical and scientific capacities.
Among the overall targets of chapter 20 are the following:-
‣ Preventing or minimizing the generation of hazardous wastes as part
of an overall integrated cleaner production approach;
‣ Eliminating or reducing to a minimum transboundary movements of
hazardous wastes;
‣ Ratifying and full implementation of the Bamako Convention on the
Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary
Movements and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa; and
‣ Eliminating the export of hazardous wastes to countries that prohibit
such imports.
1.3 The future of Basel Convention
During the second Decade (2000-2010), the Convention will build on this
framework by emphasizing full implementation and enforcement of treaty
commitments. The other area of focus will be the minimization of
hazardous waste generation. Recognizing that the long-term solution to
the stock piling of hazardous wastes is a reduction in the generation of
those wastes – both in terms of quantity and hazardousness - Ministers
during the fifth meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention in
December 1999 set out guidelines for the Convention’s activities during
the second Decade. These include: -
⇒ Active promotion and use of cleaner technologies and production
methods;
⇒ Further reduction of the movement of hazardous waste and other
wastes;
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