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Report

The global impact of e-waste: Addressing the challenge

December 2012
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Electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) is currently the largest growing waste stream. It is hazardous, complex and expensive to treat in an environmentally sound manner, and there is a general lack of legislation or enforcement surrounding it.Today, most e-waste is being discarded in the general waste stream. Of the e-waste in developed countries that is sent for recycling, 80 per cent ends up being shipped (often illegally) to developing countries to be recycled by hundreds of thou-sands of informal workers
Emerging Policy Issues: Hazardous chemicals in electronics
Topics: E-waste Chemicals in electronics
Report

Global Chemicals Outlook II: From Legacies to Innovative Solutions

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UNEP
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April 2019
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The Global Chemicals Outlook II – From Legacies to Innovative Solutions: Implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, mandated by the UN Environment Assembly in 2016, seeks to alert policymakers and other stakeholders to the critical role of the sound management of chemicals and waste in sustainable development. It takes stock of global trends as well as progress made and gaps in achieving the global goal to minimize the adverse impacts from chemicals and waste by 2020.Part I of the
Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products
Topics: Chemicals in textiles
Database

Building Material Scout

April 2023
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Database of products certified by a variety of ecolables and building certification schemes, including BNB BN 2015, BREEAM International, BAMB Circularity Passport, DGNB, LEED, WELL.

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products
Database

BASTA

April 2023
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Database of products that fulfill the BASTA's requirements for chemical content. Products are registered by suppliers and manufacturers and have to undergo third-party audits.

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products
Database

Cradle to Cradle Certified Products Registry

April 2023
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Registry of Cradle to Cradle certified products. Cradle to Cradle certification measures the environmental and social sustainability of products in five categories: material health, material reutilization, renewable energy & carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness.

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products
Database

Cradle to Cradle Material Health Certificate Registry

April 2023
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Registry of Products awarded a Material Health Certificate under the Cradle to Cradle product standard.

Report

Sources, Fate and Effects of Microplastics in the Marine Environment (Part 2)

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GESAMP
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May 2015
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This report provides an update and further assessment of the sources, fate and effects of microplastics in the marine environment, carried out by Working Group 40 (WG40) of GESAMP (The Joint Group of Experts on Scientific Aspects of Marine Protection).It follows publication of the first assessment report in this series in April 2015 (GESAMP 2015). The issue of marine plastic litter was raised during the inaugural meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) in June 2014. Delegates from 160
Emerging Policy Issues: Nanotechnology
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