This Act aims at preventing and reducing volumes of waste generation, and at promoting the reuse, recycle and management of waste in an environmentally sound manner. Waste includes solid, liquid, gaseous, hazardous and non-hazardous, organic or inorganic waste from all kinds of sources and also the materials being stored for recycling and the transportation, import and export of waste. The Act...

This Act makes provision for the management of solid waste (domestic, bulk, hazardous) in Tuvalu and environment protection in relation with collection, recycling and disposal of waste. Regulatory control over waste dumps and waste disposal sites shall be exercised by the Department of Environment and designated waste management operators, whereas the regulation of waste disposal at sea by the...

To provide for the effective protection of the environment and for other related matters - Establishes the Environmental Protection Agency, defines its functions and powers, and provides rules/standards for various matters regarding the environment, including waste management (all types). Agency is to coordinate/control the generation, treatment, storage, transportation of industrial waste and...

This Act makes provision for rules and measures to prevent marine pollution and to respond to effects causing marine pollution. The Act also defines liability for damage arising from polluting activities including pollution from oil and defines offences. The Act lists international marine pollution conventions which shall apply under laws of Samoa for purposes of this Act. The Act shall be the...

This Directive lays down measures to protect the environment and human health by preventing or reducing the adverse impacts of the generation and management of waste and by reducing overall impacts of resource use and improving the efficiency of such use. The Directive recalls the general environmental protection principles of precaution and sustainability, technical feasibility and economic...

Le présent arrêté porte interdiction de l’importation, de la distribution et de la vente de plastiques non biodégradable.

These Regulations implement Annexes IV (Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Sewage) and V (Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Garbage) of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating to that Convention. They concern, among other things: surveys to be carried out and Sewage Certificates; the...

These Regulations, made under the Environment Protection Act 2002, provide rules for the prevention of pollution by plastic banners in Mauritius. The rules aim at the prevention of uncontrolled affixing of plastic banners in public places.

This Act makes provision for the protection and management of the environment in Tuvalu. “Environment” includes all natural, physical and social resources and ecosystems or parts thereof, people and culture and the relationship that exists between these elements. One of the objectives of the Act is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity. The Minister shall be...