UNEP would like to thank the World Resources Institute, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University and the University of Strathclyde for their invaluable assistance with the collation of these laws, as well as its long-standing partner FAOLEX.

 

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Regulation
| 2006 |
Malta
Waste Management (Packaging and Packaging Waste) Regulations, 2006 (L.N. 277 of 2006).

These Regulations provide additional measures, procedures and guidance to those laid down in the Waste Management (Permit and Control) Regulations, 2001, which aim, as a first priority, at preventing the production of packaging waste and, as additional fundamental principles, at reusing packaging, at recycling and other forms of recovering packaging waste and, hence, at reducing the final disposal...

Keywords
Deposit-refund schemes , Plastic carrier bags, Plastic packaging, Plastic waste, Recycling, Waste management
Legislation
| 2004 |
Kiribati
Special Fund (Waste Material Recovery) Act 2004.

This Act empowers the Minister responsible for environment to levy deposits in respect of prescribed materials for waste material recovery and provides for the establishment of the Waste Material Recovery Fund. The Minister, acting in accordance with the advice of the Cabinet, may, by Order, make provision as to the classes of materials for recovery in respect of which deposits are to be levied...

Keywords
Deposit-refund schemes , Economic instruments, Fines, Levies, Taxes, Waste management
Legislation
| 2003 |
Mexico
Solid Waste Law for Mexico City

La presente Ley es de observancia en el Distrito Federal, sus disposiciones son de orden público e interés social, y tiene por objeto regular la gestión integral de los residuos sólidos considerados como no peligrosos, así como la prestación del servicio público de limpia.

Keywords
Deposit-refund schemes , Life-cycle approach, Microplastics, Plastic carrier bags, Recycling, Waste collection, Waste disposal, Waste management
Legislation
| 2001 |
Czechia
Act No. 185/2001 Coll., Waste Act
Keywords
Deposit-refund schemes , Hazardous waste, Labelling, Plastic packaging, Plastic waste, Waste prevention