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means of implementation established by Agenda 21 of the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development. Main discussions and activities in 2009/2010 were: • Developing a comprehensive definition of Healthcare, Healthcare Waste and Healthcare Risk Waste and promote its recognition by all national and relevant International Organizations. • Producing by way of meetings, conferences, seminars, workshops, publications and competence based education, training and assessment the means by which the best professional practices of Healthcare Waste Management can be promulgated world-wide to match economic circumstances and stages of social development. • Co-operation with the World Health Organization: The Working Group has been engaged for the last two years in producing the new version of the WHO publication “The safe management of wastes from healthcare activities” (Blue Book). The book was published in 1999 and is now in its final stages of review prior to being published later this year. • Next major task will be organizing the promotion of the WHO Blue Book when it is published and organizing a Beacon Conference to promulgate it widely. and guidelines • Landfill gas collection and energy recovery • Greenhouse gases and treatment of methane emissions from landfills. Main discussions and activities in 2009/2010 were: • Landfill Operations Guidelines translation into Portuguese and Mandarin • Update on International Guidelines for Sustainable Landfill Evaluation • State of the nation report on Landfilling • ISWA Beacon Conference on Landfill, Buenos Aires, Argentina • Partnership with M2M (Methane to Markets) Working Group on Landfill Chair: Derek Greedy, United Kingdom 20 The Working Group on Landfill addresses the planning, siting, design, construction, operation, closure, and enduse of landfills. The Working Group’s overall interests are in the proper closure of open dumps worldwide and the move towards the construction and operation of modern, engineered landfills. These interests have led to providing technical support on the design, construction, regulation, and management of landfills, for both industrialised and developing nations. Further aspects include operations, closure, and end-use concepts, along with standard practices for ground water monitoring and testing, leachate management, gas management, and stormwater management. A major activity of the Working Group is to conduct training courses for solid waste managers from environmentally developing countries. In addition, the group is working on various reports, training material and key issue papers which include: • Closure of open dumps • Landfill regulation, minimum standards, Working Group on Legal Issues Chair: Martin Hassfurther, Austria The purpose of the Working Group on Legal Issues is to serve as the principal resource to ISWA on legal issues. The overall interests for the Working Group are the exchange of legal aspects on different hot topics in waste management. Currently there is much focus on waste trafficking, EU-waste legislation, environmental responsibility and the legal aspects of different kinds of publicprivate cooperation. Main discussions and activities in 2009/2010 were: • Share and transfer legal information to all ISWA members based on knowledge, experience and research of Working Group members • Coordinate legal aspects of the activities in the different ISWA Working Groups • To take initiatives to develop and increase the activities of ISWA internationally in making appropriate legal representation
• To communicate recent legal developments to scientists, engineers and managers working in the field of solid waste management • Monitoring EU-waste issues in its EU-subgroup Working Group on Recycling and Waste Minimization Chair: Maarten Goorhuis, The Netherlands The Working Group on Recycling and Waste Minimization addresses the reduction in the generation of solid waste, recycling of materials, separation, processing and marketing of materials removed from the solid waste stream. The Working Groups main objectives are: • to share information on institutional, technological, economic and environmental matters concerning resource management, recycling, waste minimization currently in practice. • to encourage, conduct and share the results of research and development activities within the field of resource management, recycling and waste minimization. Main discussions and activities in 2009/2010 were: • Development of ISWA policy papers on globalization of recycling • Development of a discussion paper on resource management • Recycling of waste deriving from public collection sites • Discussion on the forthcoming changes to the EU Waste Framework Directive • Organization of ISWA Beacon Conference on Waste Prevention and Recycling • Development of a ISWA Key Issue Paper on Waste Prevention, Waste Minimization and Resource Management • Waste prevention, reuse and innovative recycling projects in WG member countries • Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment Working Group on Hazardous Wastes Chair: Jean Paul Léglise, France The Working Group’s interests include the sound management of hazardous wastes from both industrial and household sources, and the remediation of hazardous waste sites resulting from unacceptable hazardous wastes management practices. In carrying out its programs, Working Group members strive to serve the interests of hazardous waste management professionals in their respective countries and world-wide. The Working Groups main objectives are: • to promote the cost-effective, environmentally safe management of hazardous wastes in memberand developing countries • to develop, co-ordinate, and disseminate timely information on institutional, technological, economic, environmental, research and legal developments in the field of hazardous waste management and remediation Main discussions and activities in 2009/2010 were: • Export of hazardous waste to developing countries – helping developing countries with facilities • Hazardous waste in construction and demolition waste • Separation of hazardous waste from other waste streams • Dilution of hazardous waste 21
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