Environmental Guidelines on Solid Waste Management in Kingdom of Cambodia.
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Abstract
These Environmental Guidelines on Solid Waste Management in Kingdom of Cambodia aim to ensure the protection of the public health, environment and the conservation of bio-diversity by avoiding polluting by solid waste. The Guidelines apply to all activities related to discarding, storage, collection, transport, recycling, treatment, composting and disposal of all kinds of solid waste.
The Guidelines consist of 7 Parts: Introduction (I); Definition (II); Guideline on Solid Waste Management Plan (III); Landfill Ordinance (IV); Composting Ordinance (V); Guideline of Medical Waste Management (VI); Guideline on Environmental Education (VII).
The purposes of Part IV Landfill Ordinance include: 1. to reduce as far as possible negative effects of waste on the environment by the disposal of waste on landfills; 2. to preserve of groundwater, surface water, atmosphere quality and to reduce emission of greenhouse gases; 3. to reduce the quantities of the waste and the negatives properties of the waste like leachate and landfill gas by taking appropriate treatment measures and separation of waste; 4. to ensure that waste is not harmful to the human, natural and animal health during the operating phase and after closure of landfills as well as 5. to provide information and technical recommendation about the constructing and operating of landfills and disposal of waste, its closing and follow-up management in order to ensure the safety and the health of the public and environment protection. The competent body and the provincial or municipal authorities shall conduct study and evaluation of effect on the environment before issuing permission for construction and operation of the landfill. To ensure the groundwater quality, the role of the environmental provincial-city authority is to monitor and control groundwater quality by conducting analyses in a licensed laboratory two times per year. Landfill manager has to write a report about the existing and possible negative environmental effects to the environmental provincial-city authority. The instructions for monitoring and controlling groundwater quality, appears in Annex VI as recommendation.
The Guidelines consist of 7 Parts: Introduction (I); Definition (II); Guideline on Solid Waste Management Plan (III); Landfill Ordinance (IV); Composting Ordinance (V); Guideline of Medical Waste Management (VI); Guideline on Environmental Education (VII).
The purposes of Part IV Landfill Ordinance include: 1. to reduce as far as possible negative effects of waste on the environment by the disposal of waste on landfills; 2. to preserve of groundwater, surface water, atmosphere quality and to reduce emission of greenhouse gases; 3. to reduce the quantities of the waste and the negatives properties of the waste like leachate and landfill gas by taking appropriate treatment measures and separation of waste; 4. to ensure that waste is not harmful to the human, natural and animal health during the operating phase and after closure of landfills as well as 5. to provide information and technical recommendation about the constructing and operating of landfills and disposal of waste, its closing and follow-up management in order to ensure the safety and the health of the public and environment protection. The competent body and the provincial or municipal authorities shall conduct study and evaluation of effect on the environment before issuing permission for construction and operation of the landfill. To ensure the groundwater quality, the role of the environmental provincial-city authority is to monitor and control groundwater quality by conducting analyses in a licensed laboratory two times per year. Landfill manager has to write a report about the existing and possible negative environmental effects to the environmental provincial-city authority. The instructions for monitoring and controlling groundwater quality, appears in Annex VI as recommendation.
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Repealed
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