Hazardous Substance Management
To promote safe management and use of hazardous substance in order to avoid damage to the health and env.
International conventions
- Basel convention – control the transboundary mvmt of hazardous waste
- Non binding agreement
- Reduce the movement of hazardous waste between nations
- Prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed country
- USA, UK dumping e-waste in India, Pak and China
- Rotterdam convention – Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for certain chemicals and pests in intl trade
- Legally binding
- Shared responsibility in relation to importation of hazardous chemicals
- Like using proper labelling, directions on safe handling etc.
- Stockholm convention – Persistent Organic pollutants (POP)
- Legally binding
- Under aegis of UNEP
- POPs are chemical substances that persist in the environment, bio accumulate through the food web and pose a risk of causing adverse effects to human health and the environment
- Minamata convention on mercury
