Environmentally sound waste management means taking all practicable steps to ensure that hazardous wastes or other wastes are managed in a manner which will protect human health and the environment against the adverse effects which may result from such wastes. Source: Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, art. 2 (8). * *This term is included in the glossary of key terms prepared for the work of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, under the category 'Terms used in Environment Assembly resolution 5/14 that have definitions adopted or endorsed by an intergovernmental process'. See UNEP/PP/INC.1/6.