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Hazardous waste
Nuclear waste
Globelaw, Transport
of Nuclear Waste ¿ Contains treaties, conventions, declarations,
texts of protests, publications and GreenpeaceÍs news related to this
topic.
Natural Resources
Defense Council (NRDC), Nuclear Armaments and Nuclear Waste -
For more than 25 years, NRDC has played a major role in the formation
of U.S. nuclear nonproliferation, arms control, energy, and environmental
policies
OECD, Nuclear Energy Agency
¿ radioactive waste management strategies for spent fuel, long-lived waste,
and waste from the decommissioning of nuclear facilities
South
Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty - Full text of this treaty.
Waigani
Convention (Waigani, Papua New Guinea) - a convention
to ban the importation into South Pacific Forum Secretariat island countries
of hazardous and radioactive wastes and to control the transboundary movement
and management of hazardous wastes with the South Pacific region.
Waste minimization
OECD waste
minimization policy - Despite nearly 30 years of environmental
and waste policy efforts in OECD countries, the OECD-wide increase in
waste generation is in direct proportion to economic growth. A 40% increase
in OECD GDP since 1980 has been accompanied by a 40% increase in municipal
waste during the same period. Consumer spending also follows these trends.
The delinking of effluence from affluence generally remains elusive.
European
Union waste prevention and minimization policy ¿ "A vital
element of the Community Strategy is achieving waste minimisation in terms
of both volumes and environmental hazards/damages. The Programme sets
the EC waste minimisation target for the year 2000..."
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June 23, 2005
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