Hazardous waste Current Affairs, GK & News
European Union bans Export of Plastic Waste to poor countries
The European Union recently announced that it is to completely ban the exports of unsorted plastic to poor countries. The new rules of the European Union will amend the 2006 Waste Shipment Regulation. The new rules are to ban the exports to less industrialised nations outside OECD. Highlights The new rules are a part of ..
Month: Current Affairs - December, 2020
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Basel Convention • Basel Convention on the Control Of Hazardous Wastes • European Union (EU) • Hazardous waste • OECD • Plastic Waste • Plastic Waste Management • Recycling
US Nuclear waste dump plant marks 20 years
With tons of cold war era nuclear waste and decades of bomb making, US started this undergroung nuclear waste isolation program. The program has now successfully proved that radioactive waste could be safely disposed deep underground rendering less threat to the environment. However there had been minor accidents in the plant. A radiation leak in ..
Category: Environment Current Affairs
Topics: Energy • Environmental impact of nuclear power • Hazardous waste • High-level radioactive waste management • Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents • Nuclear physics • Nuclear technology • Radioactive waste • Radioactive Waste Repository Authority • Radioactivity
BRS Conventions
The term “BRS Conventions” is a collective term for three different conventions viz. Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. The purpose of clubbing these conventions was to ensure that a topic of common concern for the three Conventions is discussed. The thirteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (BC COP-13), the eighth meeting ..
Topics: Basel Convention • Chemical safety • Environment • Environmental law • Environmental treaties • Hazardous waste • Law by country • Politics • Rotterdam Convention • Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants • Waste