Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal (Basel Convention) have agreed to take up work on how transboundary movements of waste ...

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 ...

Governments at the 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) of the Basel Convention have voted in support of restricting plastic scrap exports by requiring countries to obtain prior informed consent ...

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 ...

Washington — A landmark United Nations treaty adopted May 10 limiting trade in plastic waste may, in the eyes of some industry groups, have unintended consequences that will hurt recycling. That is ...

In an expansion of the U.N.’s 1989 Basel Convention, amendments to the international protocol on the shipment of hazardous waste were revised to include plastics in 2021, with nations currently ...

Parties to the Basel Convention have adopted amendments to ensure all transboundary movements of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are subject to prior informed consent. The prior ...

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