Description

[1] The total supervision of waste production, handling, processing, storage, and transport from its point of generation to its final acceptable disposal. [2] The collection, transport and disposal of hazardous wastes or other wastes, including after-care of disposal sites. Sources: [1] GEMET-HMD / ISEP. [2] Basel Convention, art. 2 (2).* *This term and definition was recently 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 not used in Environment Assembly resolution 5/14 that may be related to those used in the resolution and that have definitions adopted or endorsed by an intergovernmental process'. The secretariat noted that the definition in the Basel Convention is used for environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes or other wastes. See UNEP/PP/INC.1/6.