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Information about waste and waste management is available on websites of international organizations, where there is a glossary and information on
- waste causes, effects, indicators, and statistics;
- instruments to improve waste management;
- possible solutions;
- life-cycle of waste; and
- other waste issues, including solid waste, hazardous waste, and radioactive waste.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
UNEP—Vital Waste Graphics
UNEP Waste Management - Production and Consumption Unit
UNEP United Nations System—Wide Earthwatch
UNEP—Agenda 21, Chapters on Waste
World Bank
World Bank—Urban Solid Waste Management
World Health Organization (WHO)
World Health Organization—Waste Management
World Health Organization—Healthcare waste World Health Organization—Regional Office for South-East Asia
Europe and the European Union (EU)
EUROPA European Commission—Waste
EUROPA: European Union—Summaries of Legislation for Waste Management
European Topic Centre on Resource and Waste Management
European Environment Agency—Waste
European Environmental Bureau—Waste
Other International or Regional Organizations
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency—Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety
Nuclear Energy Agency
OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development—Waste
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency—OECD—Radioactive waste management
South Pacific Regional Environment Programme—solid waste management
Links to information bases where you have to search on waste
European Environment Information and Observation Network
The Asian Network for Prevention of Illegal Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Waste
Links to capacity builders
The WGEA and the INTOSAI Development Initiative (IDI) entered into a partnership to develop and deliver a two-week training course on environmental auditing for SAIs in 2002-03. Waste was one of the four key environmental issues covered in the course. Information about the training program is available at IDI/WGEA—Environmental auditing Training Program. SAIs may contact IDI to receive the training material for the two-week workshop UNITAR United Nations Institute for Training and Research on chemicals waste and Environmental Governance.
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