Waste Crime - Waste Risks: Gaps in Meeting the Global Waste Challenge - A Rapid Response Assessment
More than ever, our future depends upon how we manage the future of our waste. As an integrated part of sustainable development, effective waste management can reduce our global footprint. Ignoring or neglecting the challenges of waste, however, can lead to significant health, environmental and economic consequences. Waste covers a very wide spectrum of discarded materials ranging from municipal, electrical and electronic, industrial and agricultural, to new types including counterfeit pesticides. It also includes anything in size and scale from decommissioned ships, oil or liquid wastes, hundreds of millions of mobile phones to billions of used car tires.
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Format: | Reports and Books biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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United Nations Environment Programme
2015
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Subjects: | Environmental management, Waste Management, Hazardous Waste, Mercury Contamination, E-waste, Ozone Layer Depletion, Climate Change, |
Online Access: | https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/9648 |
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