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Guidelines for the development of national
waste management strategies
Supporting the implementation of Basel and Stockholm Conventions:
update on waste and WEEE initiatives by UNEP IETC and SCRC/BCRCs
Ordinary and extraordinary meetings of the conferences of the parties to the Basel,
Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions
Geneva, 3 May 2013
Brandon Turner, Senior Specialist, Chemicals and Waste Management Programme,
UNITAR
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Outline
 Policy context
 Need for integrated approaches
 Proposed guidelines
 Added value
 Other details
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Policy context
Overview
 Waste management is a cross-cutting “mega-issue”
impacting on all three pillars of sustainable development.
 With rapidly increasing population, urbanization,
industrialization, and economic growth in developing and
transition economy countries, waste management is
becoming one of the most significant planning challenges
faced by these countries in the 21st century.
 The rapid increase in volumes,
complexity, and hazardousness
of waste is accentuating the
difficulties that governments are
already facing.
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Policy context
Generation and composition
 World cities generate
about 1.3 billion tonnes
of solid waste per year
(2.2 billion tonnes by
2025) (WB).
 Global generation of
waste agricultural
biomass is approx. 5
billion tons per year.
 Composition of the waste is changing over time. There is an
increase of plastic waste, electronic and electrical waste or ewaste and other hazardous waste.
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Policy context
Treatment and disposal
 Municipal solid waste collection rates range from 41% in lowincome countries to 98% in high-income countries.
 Many developing countries
dispose of their waste in
open dumps.
 Transboundary movement
of waste occurs as secondhand markets and illegal
shipments.
 MSW is estimated to account for almost 5% (1,460 mt CO2e)
of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Policy context
Current approaches
 Waste-related problems are often handled in a fragmented
and uncoordinated manner.
 Clear targets and consistent national approaches are often
lacking or out of date.
 Many countries have developed national strategies;
however in many cases they focus on just municipal solid
waste, or they are out of date. Many other countries still
lack of a strategy.
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Policy context
Mandates
 The UNEP Governing Council has requested UNEP in its
Decision GC 26/3, part IV, 26 “to provide further assistance
to developing countries and countries with economies in
transition in their efforts to develop and strengthen the
national implementation of an integrated waste
management approach.”
 The United Nations Conference on Sustainable
Development, Rio+20 2012, in paragraph 218, has called for
“the development and enforcement of comprehensive
national and local waste management policies, strategies,
laws and regulations.”
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Needs for integrated approaches
Ensuring effective sustainable waste management practices
across a country requires an integrated national waste
management strategy (NWMS) which:
 identifies the stakeholders, needs, and priorities;
 indicates the necessary key policy and regulatory tools
 sets out an agreed approach to follow for each major waste
stream; and
 establish priorities, a plan for its implementation and
monitoring.
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UNEP-UNITAR NWMS guidelines project
Phase I (ongoing)
 Preparing guidelines for the development, review and
updating of NWMS
Part I – Introduction context and overview
Part II - Challenges and opportunities in waste
management
Part III – Considerations in developing a national
waste management strategy
Part IV - A national waste management strategy –
a participative process
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UNEP-UNITAR NWMS guidelines project
Phase I (ongoing)
 Peer review process
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Preliminary review conducted by two open call for
comments through IETC website and IETC’s network.
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Review workshop with 30 experts from governments,
intergovernmental organizations, the private sector,
academia and public interest groups from 18 countries.
 Final version of the guidelines
 To be completed and published by the third quarter of
2013.
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UNEP-UNITAR NWMS guidelines project
Phase II
 Development of supplementary tools, guidance and
training materials
 Data and information collection, action plan development,
and case studies.
 Presentations summarizing the guidelines, workshop
templates and exercises.
 National Pilot projects
 Pilot testing the guidelines in four to six countries (subject to
funding) from a diverse set of regions.
 Lessons learned will be included in the second edition of the
guidelines.
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UNEP-UNITAR NWMS guidelines project
Phase III
 National Pilot projects
 Larger-scale and longer-term programme to deliver
assistance to a larger number of countries.
 Development of further supplementary tools, guidance
and training materials
 E-learning package, Financial assessment tool and others.
 Second edition of the guidelines
 Review of the guidelines and amend/include the lessons
learned.
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Added value
The guidelines and supporting materials will:
 bring together experience and lessons learned of countries which
have already strategies in place.
 help countries to develop NWMS that are comprehensive, realistic,
and effective, but with flexibility to avoid a “one size fits all” approach.
 support the implementation of relevant activities under the global
plan of action (GPA) of the Strategic Approach on International
Chemicals Management (SAICM)
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Relationship to other initiatives
 Complementing the forthcoming update of the Training Resource
Pack on Hazardous Waste Management in Developing Economies
(coordinated by the International Solid Waste Association - ISWA).
 Complementing current work under the Basel Convention and
relating to previous specific guidelines produced by the Basel
Convention and others.
 Complementing the work of the Regional 3R Forum in Asia which
facilitates high level policy dialogues on 3R and provides strategic
and knowledge platform.
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Other details
Cooperation
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Collaboration between UNEP-IETC and UNITAR.
Consultations and inputs from governments, IGOs, academia,
private sector, NGOs and a wider audience of stakeholders
providing feedback as a response to the open call for
comments.
Timeline
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(Depending on the availability of resources)
Final guidelines by third quarter 2013
Supporting materials by end 2013
Pilot projects in 2014-2015
Resources
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Phase I: Estimated USD 80,000.
Phase II and Phase III: Piloting estimated USD 80,000-100,000
per country.
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NATIONAL
WASTE
MANAGEMENT
PLANNING
IS NEED!
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International Environmental
Technology Centre
United Nations Institute for
Training and Research
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Tsurumi-ku, Osaka
538-0036, Japan
Tel : +81 (0) 6 6915 4581
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Chemicals and Waste Management
Programme
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Tel: +41 22 917 8400
Fax: +41 22 917 8047
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://www.unitar.org/cwm
Thank You…