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General information
HazMatMapping: Mapping the North American Hazardous Waste Trade
Land of Waste @ SaveOnEnergy [USA focus]
TOXNET @ National Institute of Health
Periodicals
Films ~ AV ~ Documentaries
The ship that dumped America's waste
Institutions ~ International organizations & agreements
Basel Convention on the Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous
Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
UN Minamata Convention on Mercury
OECD 2001 Decision on Transboundary Movements of Waste
Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound
management and of hazardous substances and waste
Institutions ~ Networks & initiatives
· “...a two-year project funded by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.
It will develop a voluntary certification scheme for waste treatment. Specifically, the project will create,
validate and launch the scheme for collection, transport and treatment facilities of key types of waste
containing significant amounts of valuable and critical raw materials such as waste electrical and
electronic equipment (WEEE) and batteries.”
Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN)
Institutions ~ NGOs
· BAN is a well-known and globally recognized INGO which has a great track record and history of
being a global watchdog over e-waste
Center for Environmental Health (CEH)
WASTE: Turning Waste Into Prosperity
WRAP: Waste Resources Action Programme [UK]
Institutions ~ Professional associations
Air & Waste Management Association
Bureau of International Recycling (BIR)
International Solid Waste Association
North American Hazardous Materials Management Association
Solid Waste Association of North America
· "...a 501c(3) organization of more than 10,000 public and private sector professionals committed
to advancing from solid waste management to resource management through their shared emphasis
on education, advocacy and research."
Institutions ~ Private sector
Types of contaminants
Lead
Mercury
UN Minamata Convention on Mercury
Pesticides
Pesticide Action Network
National Pesticide Information Center (NPIC) [USA]
Pesticide Info database
Pesticide National Synthesis Project [USA]
Key point:
The Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions constitute the core international agreements on toxic chemicals and wastes. Their websites are integrated yet distinct, with a centralized Synergies site.
Benée Hershon of Brandeis University developed this and related pages in 2018.
Includes toxic substances, pesticides & CWM (chemicals & waste management).
Contents of this page:
· General information
· Periodicals
· Films ~ AV ~ Documentaries
· Institutions:
~ International organizations & agreements
~ Networks & initiatives
~ NGOs
~ Professional associations
~ Private sector
· Types of contaminants
~ Lead
~ Mercury
~ Pesticides
Also see:
· Indigenous people & hazardous waste at the Indigenous peoples page
· e-waste page
· Plastic pollution page
Hazardous materials & wastes
