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Introduction to the Basel Convention - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… condensed and pulled into depressions in the planet’s surface. The Earth’s major oceanic depressions form the … Oceans. These oceans are a thin film over the Earth’s surface, on average, only a few kilometres deep. Oceans and … sources include operational discharges such as bilge water discharges, but not the operation of a vessel for the …
21 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Chemicals and Waste

UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015

… instance, in The Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Water Pollution, an ambitious nationwide programme … our efforts in carpet (what the industry refers to as soft surface), we entered the hard surface flooring category in 2011. Hard surface has grown in …
21 Jun 2026 Document

Vital Waste Graphics 3

… recycled paper. Inks are vegetable-based and coatings are water-based. Our distribution policy aims to reduce our … environment for years to decades or longer.’ Where large surface currents – gyres1 – con- verge, plastic waste forms … is be- ing collected from what reappears on the ocean surface or the shore. This waste is an additional burden for …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste