Law prohibiting all stores from supplying petroleum-based plastic bags to consumers and customers in American Samoa

Prohibition of littering and dumping, outlines waste disposal facilities and responsibility of Council for collection and disposal of solid and hazardous waste

MEXICAN OFFICIAL REGULATION NOM-161-SEMARNAT-2011, WHICH ESTABLISHES THE CRITERIA FOR CLASSIFYING SPECIAL HANDLING WASTE AND DETERMINING WHICH ARE SUBJECT TO A MANAGEMENT PLAN; THE LIST OF SUCH WASTES, THE PROCEDURE FOR THEIR INCLUSION OR EXCLUSION FROM SAID LIST; AS WELL AS THE ELEMENTS AND PROCEDURES FOR THE FORMULATION OF MANAGEMENT PLANS.

Set standards for the collection of domestic waste in the schedule hereto.

La présente loi énonce les principes fondamentaux en matière de preotection de l'environnement et fixe le cadre institutionnel ainsi que les mécanismes procéduraux et de financement de la protection de l’environnement; elle établit les règles de gestion et de conservation des ressources naturelles et réglemente la responsabilité civile en la matière en prévoyant des infractions et des peines. Elle...

The purpose of the present Act is to reduce landfill waste and litter left on roads and in waterways, and to establish beverage container standards, Recycling Centres. The Act includes a deposit/refund system for soft drink, juice and alcohol containers; uniform labelling, size and type specifications. The text - consisting of 23 sections – deals, inter alia, with the following aspects: definition...

This Act, consisting of 16 Chapters divided into 302 sections, aims at promoting waste avoidance and reduction, and resource recovery and efficiency actions; reducing the consumption of natural resources and minimizing the disposal of waste by encouraging waste avoidance and the recovery, re-use and recycling of waste; minimizing the overall impact of waste generation and disposal; ensuring a...

This Act, consisting of 10 Chapters, provides for Solid Waste Generation, Collection, and Disposal Management. The local body shall be responsible for the management of solid waste by construction and operation of infrastructure like transfer station, landfill site, processing plant, compost plant, biogas-plant and also collection of waste, final disposal and processing. It specifies all the...

These Regulations, made under section 34 of the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (Establishment) Act, 2007, provide for quality control of and quality standards and requirements of surface waters and groundwater in Nigeria. They also provide with respect to enforcement, define offences and prescribe penalties for such offences. The Regulations concern the...

Le présent décret fixe les modalités de la gestion de la production, de l’importation, de la distribution, de la commercialisation, de l’usage, de la collecte et du recyclage des sachets et emballages plastiques au Togo. Ce décret interdit la production, l’importation, la distribution et la commercialisation des sachets et emballages plastiques non biodégradables au Togo. Par contre, il autorise...