The convention is also intended to minimize the rate and toxicity of wastes generated, to ensure their environmentally sound management as closely as possible to the source of generation, and to assist LDCs in environmentally sound management of the hazardous and other wastes they generate. The convention was opened for signature on 21 March 1989, and entered into force on 5 May 1992.
The convention is also intended to minimize the rate and toxicity of wastes generated, to ensure their environmentally sound management as closely as possible to the source of generation, and to assist LDCs in environmentally sound management of the hazardous and other wastes they generate. The convention was opened for signature on 21 March 1989, and entered into force on 5 May 1992.
These concerns led to several regional waste trade bans, including the Bamako Convention. Lobbying at 1995 Basel conference by LDCs, Greenpeace and several European countries such as Denmark, led to the adoption of an amendment to the convention in 1995 termed the Basel Ban Amendment to the Basel Convention.
BAN works to curb trans-border trade in hazardous electronic waste, land dumping, incineration, and the use of prison labor. ==See also== Asbestos and the law Bamako Convention Electronic waste by country Rotterdam Convention Stockholm Convention ==References== ==Further reading== Toxic Exports, Jennifer Clapp, Cornell University Press, 2001. Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry, Ted Smith, David A.
As of October 2018, 199 states and the SAARS are parties to the convention.
At issue is the distinction when used computers stop being a "commodity" and become a "waste". As of October 2018, there are 187 parties to the treaty, which includes 184 UN member states, the Cook Islands, the European Union, and the State of Palestine.
Haiti and the United States have signed the convention but not ratified it. Following a petition urging action on the issue signed by more than a million people around the world, most of the world's countries, but not the United States, agreed in May 2019 to an amendment of the Basel Convention to include plastic waste as regulated material.
On 6 September 2019, Croatia became the 97th country to ratify the amendment which will enter into force after 90 days on 5 December 2019.
The Basel Convention's website informs about the progress of this initiative. ==Regulation of plastic waste== In the wake of popular outcry, in May 2019 most of the world's countries, but not the United States, agreed to amend the Basel Convention to include plastic waste as a regulated material.
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