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Showing 271 - 280 of 825 resultsProcedures for Prioritization of Chemicals for Risk Evaluation Under the Toxic Substances Control Act| 2017 |Regulation
United States of AmericaAs required under section 6(b)(1) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), EPA is issuing a final rule that establishes the process and criteria that EPA will use to identify chemical substances as either High-Priority Substances for risk evaluation, or Low-Priority Substances for which risk evaluations are not warranted at the time.
Case study | 2017Implementation Plan for Prohibiting the Entry of Foreign Garbage and Advancing the Reform of the Solid Waste Import Administration System (No. 70 [2017], General Office of the State Council)This Plan is developed according to the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council as to the advancement of the building of ecological civilization and the reform of the ecological civilization system, in order to comprehensively forbid the entry of foreign garbage into the country, advance the reform of the solid waste import administration system, promote the...CountryChina
Darebin, Victoria Ban on balloons, disposable food containers and cups at events on council property| 2017 |Regulation
AustraliaDecree of 05-17-2017 of approval of the Regulation for the reduction of the consumption of plastic bags.| 2017 |Regulation
AndorraLa Llei 25/2004, del 14 de desembre, de residus adopta els criteris jeràrquics europeus de gestió de residus, integrats i desenvolupats en el Pla nacional de residus (PNR). Per ordre prioritari, aquests criteris són la prevenció en la generació de residus, la reutilització, el reciclatge, la valorització energètica i l’eliminació.
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