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Technical guidelines on used oil re-refining or other re-uses of previously used oil (R9)

… BASEL CONVENTION TECHNICAL GUIDELINES ON USED OIL RE-REFINING OR OTHER RE-USES OF PREVIOUSLY USED OIL Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary … or under uncontrolled conditions can lead to serious pollution of all environmental media. Also, combustion plants …
20 Jun 2026 Document

Transitioning to a pollution-free planet

… 49 Towards a Pollution-Free Planet 3 Transitioning towards a … Coalition 2016). Biotechnology is being used for cleaning oil-contaminated environments using bacteria or fungi for … and maintenance costs are relatively high Large-scale oil spills New generation trawler to recover oil spills 100% …
20 Jun 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Technical guidelines: General technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants

… the UNECE 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution ; (b) 2003 Protocol on Pollutant Release and … and PCTs Finland Council of State Decision (101/1997) on oil waste management · Contains limit values for PCBs in regenerated oil and in oil wastes destined for incineration Finland …
20 Jun 2026 Document

Regional Action Plan on Marine Litter Management for the wider Caribbean Region 2014

… ACRONYMS AMEP - Assessment and Management of Environmental Pollution ABWREC - Antigua and Barbuda Waste Recycling … boats and cruises, fishing and cargo ships, offshore oil rigs and platforms, fishing piers, jetties and marinas. … textile fibres (Hollman, Bouwmeester, & Peters, 2013), oil containers, fishing gear including filament line and …
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Technical guidelines on incineration on land (D10)

… would be a much smaller quantity of such products. Wood, oil, and coal, for example, are all composed of organic … The burner is fired with, for example, natural gas, oil or waste solvents. The major advantage of the rotary kiln … burn completely. Combustion gases are discharged to air pollution control systems while the solids are discharged …
20 Jun 2026 Document

Ridding the world of POPs - A guide to the Stockholm Convention on POPs

… human health scandals, including contamination of rice oil in Japan in 1968 and Taiwan in 1979. PCBs are also … human health scandals, including contamination of rice oil in Japan in 1968 and Taiwan in 1979. PCBs are also … sites is a delicate job that risks leakage and additional pollution, and the safe destruction or containment of PCBs …
20 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Technical guidelines on hazardous wastes: physico-chemical treatment (d9) and biological treatment (d8)

… metals and other species have been precipitated. Certain oil/water mixtures. Process Principles Gravitational forces … settlement and separation processes. Colloidal solutions. Oil/water mixtures/emulsions and other emulsions. Process … to ensure that evaporation does not lead to atmospheric pollution and the emission of constituents which would be …
20 Jun 2026 Document

Technical guidelines on specially engineered landfill (D5)

… processes to occur, the result of these minimizing the pollution potential of any leachate and allowing the capacity … where possible to avoid the possibility of ground water pollution. Where this is not possible, landfills should be … parameters: pH, TOC, phenols, heavy metals, fluoride, As, oil/hydrocarbons. 36 4 TOPOGRAPHY OF THE SITE 4.1 Data on the …
20 Jun 2026 Document

GUIDANCE on feasible flame-retardant alternatives to commercial pentabromodiphenyl ether - 2009 (UNEP/POPS/COP.4/INF24)

… alternative flame retardants to c-PentaBDE. The Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT) has therefore commissioned …
20 Jun 2026 Document

Synergies Success Stories - Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions

… MARPOL International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships MEA Multilateral Environmental Agreement … disposed of in 2010 . In order to reduce the environmental pollution in the world caused by the export of waste … and inefficiency of policies to ensure the environmental pollution caused by chemicals and wastes is reduced . 21 …
20 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste