Formally called: The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal
It is an international treaty
It is a UN Treaty
Open for signature in 1989
Effective from 1992
Signatories : 53
Parties : 183
What it does?
Aims to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries
The Convention is also intended to :
minimize the amount 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
It does not address the movement of radioactive waste.
Its objective was to stop dumping of hazardous waste from developed countries in developing nations.