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In response to Resolution 2/7 from the second session (UNEP/EA.2/RES.7) of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and reaffirmed in Resolution 4/7 from its fourth session (UNEP/EA.4/RES.7), the Global Waste Management Outlook offers an updated assessment of g
Sustainable waste management is crucial to delivering the Sustainable Development Goals. Prioritising waste reduction, recycling and safe disposal can address some of the most pressing social, economic and environmental issues of our time.
For the 50th World Environment Day 2023 with the theme "Solutions to Plastic Pollution" UNEP published a practical guide to provide some tips on how we can all be part of the global movement to solve the plastic pollution crisis.
Gender and waste management: E-waste and plastic waste
The waste management sector has seen significant impacts from the burgeoning COVID-19 waste problem including the high risk of exposure to both informal and formal waste workers.
The waste sector is assumed to be gender neutral, but gender inequalities and norms are embedded in almost every aspect of waste management, leading to a gendered division of labour.
Annual report of UENP IETC highlighting delivered activities in 2021
Between the 1990s and early 2000s, large-scale illegal dumping and improper treatment of medical waste was a common occurrence in Japan, and became a serious social issue owing to the potential human health risk and environmental damage resulting from the waste itself, which could be infectious or contained sharps or chemical and toxic substances.
This case study reports on the development of a healthcare waste management (HCWM) system at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in Nepal where the intervention began in 2014 with support from HECAF 360, a local NGO, and Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), an international NGO, and WHO Nepal.
UNEP-IETC released its 2020 Annual Report, highlighting the organization’s work on issues around waste management systems that are impacting the environment. It also introduces the knowledge products, in-country supports, and outreach activities that are delivered in 2020.
The National Action Plan on Plastic Waste Management is prepared based on a preventative approach and using 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) related waste hierarchy.
Without doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting human lives in many ways and is highlighting the interrelations between our environmental and societal systems. The measures taken to control the spread of the virus across society lead to a decline of economic growth, restrictions of people’s mobility, and a further need of digitisation and confinement in homes.
This report on “Guidelines for Safe Closure and Rehabilitation of Municipal Solid Waste Dumpsites in Sri Lanka” has been close cooperation between the Ministry of Environment of Sri Lanka and UNEP through the IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET) and UNEP’s International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC).
Plastic Waste Management Strategy and Action Plan for Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is a strategy document which acts as a guiding document for GHMC to ensure holistic management of plastic waste in the city of Hyderabad.
‘A Roadmap for Sustainable Waste Management and Resource Circulation in South Asia, 2019-2030’ aims to set the regional policy framework, including clear targets and practical measures to achieve the sustainable waste and resource management in South Asia and put the incentives in place to motivate the change by national actions, networking, knowledge and technology sharing as well as mutual le
Electric vehicles (EVs) offer an opportunity to replace fossil fuels in the transport sector. Electrification of the transport sector can also bring benefits in terms of increased energy efficiency and reduced local pollution. However, there are genuine concerns about meeting the future energy demand for charging EV batteries with clean and renewable sources.
This guideline focuses on Mechanical-Biological Treatment (MBT) technology for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), mainly household waste and commercial waste, in urban areas of Asian developing countries.
Ecology Note : Towards Clean, Green and Beautiful Bhutan – is a supplementary material for primary school teachers who wish to introduce environmental education for the first time, or for those who want to enhance the scope of educational work in addition to what is already taught in the classrooms.
This Composting Guideline is one of the guideline series published by IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET) and the International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC)of UNEP.
UNEP IETC was established in Osaka, Japan in 1992 with a mandate to facilitate transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies to developing countries and countries with economies in transition. From 2011 onward, our mission has been to serve as a global centre of excellence on Environmentally Sound Technology with focus on holistic waste management.
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The mandate of IETC, as agreed in Decision 16/34 of UNEP Governing Council, is the transfer of environmentally sound technologies (EST) to developing countries and countries with economies in transition.