Includes strict avoidance, source reduction, direct reuse, reuse and recycling.  Source: Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention, “Set of practical manuals for the promotion of the environmentally sound management of wastes,” document UNEP/CHW.13/4/Add.1/Rev.1, p. 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'. The secretariat noted that the term used in resolution 5/14 is “minimization of waste”. See UNEP/PP/INC.1/6.