basal convention

1. BASAL CONVENTION
Mohammad khan
Semester 4th
Class no 8
Environmental and Conservation Sciences
University of Swat
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19 November
2019

2. List of content
 Introduction
 Parties
 History
 Objectives
 Principle aims
 Annex
 Waste regulated under Basal Convention
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3. Introduction
 An international treaty that was designed to reduce the
movement of hazardous wastes between nations, and
specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from
developed to less developed countries
 Adopted on 22 march 1989 and came into force on 1992.
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4. Parties of the Basal Convention
 182 states
 European state
 Haithi and united state not ratified it
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5. History of the Basal Convention
 Khian sea waste disposal incident
 1988 koko case
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6. Objective
 To protect human health and environment against the
adverse effects of hazardous wastes
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7. Principle aims
 The reduction of hazardous waste generation
 Restriction of transboundary movement of hazardous
waste
 Regulatory system for transboundary movement of
hazardous wastes.
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8. Annex
 Annex 1 – hazardous wastes
 Annex 2 – other wastes – household wastes
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9. Waste regulated under Basal Convention
 Biomedical and healthcare wastes
 Used oils
 Used lead acid batteries
 Persistent organic pollutants
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10. Cont...
 Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)
 All chemical wastes generated by industries and
consumers
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11. THANK YOU
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