UNEP Basle Convention guidelines on waste plastics management

Technical guidelines for the identification and environmentally sound management of plastic wastes and for their disposal



In its decision V/26 on the work programme of the Technical Working Group, the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, meeting in its fifth meeting, adopted the work programme which provided, inter alia, for the finalisation of the technical guidelines for the identification and environmentally sound management of plastic waste and for its disposal.



Copies of the report (0.7MB) are available from the Basle Convention’s website at:



http://www.basel.int/COP6/cop6_21e.pdf