Hazardous Waste (1992, No. 6) (Open)
Hazardous Waste (1992, No. 6)
To encourage NFAs to urge their respective governments to initiate and sustain comprehensive information programmes to educate the public about:
- The dangers of household hazardous wastes;
- their safe disposal;
- the diversion of products from the hazardous waste stream by re-use whenever safely possible;
- the use of non-hazardous and less hazardous alternative products; to encourage NFAs to call upon their respective governments to co-operate in providing the public with regular, accessible and safe systems for the collection and disposal of household hazardous waste;
to urge NFAs to; facilitate the dissemination of information on the significance and dangers of the improper disposal of hazardous household wastes and promote, where applicable, the use of safe alternatives, and exert consumer pressure on industry to research, develop and market safe alternatives to hazardous household products.