The Basel Convention defines scrap as waste, and this could have a negative impact on the international trading of scrap metal. If you think trade in scrap metal is too well established or too ...

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The Hawaii County Council will discuss how to better handle the county’s plastic waste, although it is unclear what effect it can actually have. Hilo-Hamakua councilwoman Heather Kimball, who ...

The Basel Convention on hazardous wastes has finalized a set of guidelines promoting the environmentally sound recycling of spent lead-acid batteries – the largest source of secondary lead in the ...

The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) launched a three-day long workshop Tuesday, on the implementation of national plans for the Trans-boundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and ...

The Basel Convention on the control of trans-boundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal was adopted on 22 March 1989 by the Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Basel, Switzerland, in ...

BRUSSELS — A new international rule book for what happens to old ships goes into force next year, but shipowners are worried it will clash with existing regulations and those falling afoul of the ...

How should we best dispose off toxic electrical waste? The Basel convention was put in place to help answer that question. On May 22, 1989, international lawmakers meeting in Switerzerland signed a ...