In ecosystems one part depends on the other. The same is with environmental legislation. It should be done in a comprehensive and coherent analysis. Although this trend is reflected in the new legislation about environmental treatment of EEE, we be…
Read MoreEU manufacturers and importers of electrical and electronic equipment should be well aware of their obligations under the EU’s WEEE Directive and under the RoHS Directive covering restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in the self-sam…
Read MoreHazardous waste disposal costs go soaring. At the same time the world attempts to prevent transfer of hazardous waste to areas in the world where you can dispose of waste without the cost and probably without proper treatment, endangering of man and…
Read MoreIn 1992 the Basel Convention, regulating the trans boundary movement of hazardous waste was signed. The initiation of the convention was due to the large number of cases discovered, and many others that have not seen, in which illegal transport of h…
Read MoreThe Indian Energy & Resources Institute published a book dealing with electronic waste. Attorneys Levinson and Lietzmann wrote the book chapters dealing with legislation applicable to electronic waste around the world. Their contribution focused…
Read MoreThe Basel Convention on the transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal aims (a) at halting the dumping of such waste from industrialized nations to developing countries with inadequate or inexistent facilities for treating it or s…
Read MoreMedical institutions in Israel are exempt from the general provisions governing the environmental impacts of businesses. Only recently have the waste streams of medical institutions been regulated under the People's Health Regulations (Waste Treatmen…
Read MoreOn June 6th, 1993 the government of Israel decided to close down the hundreds of small MSW dumping sites and to concentrate MSW in a limited number of sites on a regional basis. While everybody acknowledges the pressing need for MSW dumping sites, al…
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