Third meeting of the Global Partnership for Mercury Waste Management

Relevant meeting report and other useful documents from the workshop:

• Chair's Summary
• Summary of Discussion 

Third Waste Management Partnership Area Meeting Participants in Manila, December 2013. Photo Courtesy of Japan

DAY 1: Tuesday, December 10

Opening Session:

• Provisional Agenda
• Meeting Schedule
• Concept Note
• Logistics Information 
• Participants List
• Text of the 'Minamata Convention on Mercury'
• Introduction: Results of PAG5 and Diplomatic Conference (UNEP Chemicals DTIE)
• Framework and achievements of the current activities of the Waste Management Partnership Area (Chairperson)

Session 1: Directions of activities under the Waste Management Partnership Area towards supporting countries as they ratify and implement the Minamata Convention on Mercury

• Scope of the session
• Current Activities and Challenges for the Reduction of Mercury Releases from Waste (the Philippines)
• Current Activities and Challenges for the Reduction of Mercury Releases from Waste (ZMWG/ Ban Toxics)
• Draft Revised Business Plan, as of July 2013
• Partnership Area Reporting, as of March 2012
• Resource Person List
• Leaflet of '3R International and SWAPI Meeting'

Session 2: Collaboration possibilities with other Partnership Areas, Local Authorities and Private-Sectors

• Scope of the session
• Report of the Supply and Storage Partnership Area (Spain) / (Spanish Technological Developments on Hg Stabilization and Hg Containing Waste, 2012)
• Co-operation/ Synergy Between Waste Management & Storage Sectors: Setting up the Roadmap (Hg Recoveries Pty Ltd.) (text)
• Mexico
• Zero Pollution Alliance's Progress Report 2010-2013 (Zero Pollution Alliance)
• Mercury Recovery from the Waste (Nomura Kohsan Co. Ltd) 

DAY 2: Wednesday, December 11

Session 3: Good Practices for Management of Mercury Releases from Waste: Relevant Documents

• Review of the Current 'Good Practice Document'
• Update of the Basel Convention Technical Guidelines for Environmentally Sound Management of Wastes Consisting of Elemental Mercury and Wastes Containing or Contaminated with Mercury (Secretariat of the Basel Convention)
• Development of a 'Practical Sourcebook on Mercury Storage and Disposal' (UNEP Chemicals DTIE)
• Good Practices for Management of Mercury Releases from Waste, First Draft
• Basel Convention 'Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Management of Waste Consisting of Elemental Mercury and Wastes Containing or Contaminated with Mercury'
• Development of a 'Practical Sourcebook on Mercury Storage and Disposal'

Session 4: Taking Action on Implementing Waste Management Partnership Area's Future Projects

• Scope of the Session
• Draft 'Wish List'
• Japan's contribution to the sound mercury management in developing countries (MOE Japan)