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Showing 21 - 30 of 37 resultsLaw on Integrated Waste Management| 2010 |Legislation
Costa RicaEsta Ley tiene por objeto regular la gestión integral de residuos y el uso eficiente de los recursos, mediante la planificación y ejecución de acciones regulatorias, operativas, financieras, administrativas, educativas, ambientales y saludables de monitoreo y evaluación.
KeywordsCertification, Deposit-refund schemes , Fiscal incentives, Hazardous waste, Stakeholder engagement, Waste, Waste collection, Waste disposal, Waste managementRegulation on the criteria for the calculation of charges for packaging or packaged product and exemption from payment of fees.| 2010 |Regulation
SerbiaThis Regulation officially defines and establishes the criteria for the calculation of charges for packaging or packaged product on the territory of the Republic of Serbia, and exemption from payment of these fees, bond payments, as well as the manner of calculation and payment of fees. The fee (compensation) for packaging or packaged product that after use becomes packaging waste shall be...
KeywordsCertification, Labelling, Plastic packaging, Recycling, Waste disposal, Waste managementThe National Environmental Management: Integrated Coastal Management Act| 2009 |Legislation
South AfricaTo establish a system of integrated coastal and estuarine management in the Republic, including norms, standards and policies, in order to promote the conservation of the coastal environment, and maintain the natural attributes of coastal landscapes and seascapes.
KeywordsCertification, Enforcement, Hazardous waste, Integrated coastal zone management, Waste disposal, Waste managementNational Environmental Management: Waste Act, 2008 (No. 59 of 2008).| 2009 |Legislation
South AfricaThis Act makes provision with respect to measures to improve waste management practices, including: (a) minimizing the consumption of natural resources; (b) prevention and minimizing the generation of waste; (c) reducing, re-using, recycling and recovering waste; (d) treating and safely disposing of waste as a last resort; (e) preventing pollution and ecological degradation; (f) promoting and...
KeywordsCertification, Waste collection, Waste disposal, Waste management, Waste preventionSolid Waste Management Act (No.18/2008)| 2008 |Legislation
IndonesiaKeywordsCertification, Fiscal incentives, Labelling, Stakeholder engagement, Waste managementEnvironment Protection (Industrial Waste Audit) Regulations 2008 (GN No. 255 of 2008).| 2008 |Regulation
MauritiusThese Regulations, made under the Environment Protection Act, 2002, require any person who carries out an activity as specified in the First Schedule to these Regulations, to conduct an industrial waste audit and to fill out the Waste Audit Form and submit it to the Director of Environment. The Director may request persons who have submitted the form to submit an Industrial Waste Audit Report, to...
KeywordsCertification, Enforcement, Verification of compliance, Waste, Waste management, Hazardous waste, RecyclingWaste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act| 2007 |Legislation
AustraliaAn Act to provide for waste avoidance and resource recovery, and establish the Waste Authority; and establish a container deposit scheme; and provide for waste services by local governments; and provide for levies on waste, and repeal the Environmental Protection (Landfill) Levy Act 1998, and provide for related and consequential matters.
KeywordsCertification, Deposit-refund schemes , Waste, Waste collection, Waste disposal, Waste managementWastes Control Act.| 2007 |Legislation
Republic of KoreaThe purpose of this Act is to contribute to environmental conservation by minimizing the generation of wastes and properly disposing of wastes generated. Local governments shall install and manage waste disposal facilities in order to properly manage wastes and they shall carry out waste management services by improving the methods of waste collection, transportation, and disposal. The Mayor/Do...
KeywordsCertification, Waste disposal, Waste management, Waste preventionGovernment Ordinance establishing rules concerning the identification of packaging wastes and their recycling.| 2005 |Regulation
SlovakiaThis Government Ordinance is composed of four articles and two annexes. Compulsory rules concerning the identification of packaging wastes and their recycling are specified in Annex 1. Annex 2 contains the list of European Community Regulations implemented by this ordinance.
KeywordsCertification, Extended Producer Responsibility, Labelling, Recycling, Waste collection, Waste disposal, Waste management, Waste preventionEnvironment Protection Agency Act of Liberia.| 2003 |Legislation
LiberiaThis Act provides for the establishment of the Environment Protection Agency, the National Environment Policy Council, the Environmental Court of Appeals, the Environmental Administrative Court and the Environment Protection Fund, for the designation of Environmental Inspectors and other matters relative to administration in the field of environment, for environment impact assessment and...
KeywordsCertification, Hazardous waste, Waste disposal, Waste managementPagination
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