While the disposal of low level waste and intermediate level waste may be considered a mature practice, the disposal of high level waste remains a major source of concern.

The main source is direct disposal by households, followed by the impact of tourist facilities and run off from waste dumps (waste from land sources).

Today, in many countries, there is a lack of appropriate management of waste, from the source where the waste is produced through to its final disposal or processing.

(a) Regulation the use of regulations to ensure that waste is prevented at source and to ensure that waste which nevertheless arises is only disposed of in landfill when no opportunities for re use exist.

There's a waste of time there's a waste of space there's a waste of energy and there's a waste of waste.

The second largest source of GHG emissions was agriculture (5.4 per cent), followed by industrial processes (5 per cent) and waste (4 per cent).

The contact group on waste oil refineries noted that the chapter on the source category currently contained a summary but no other text, because of a lack of available evidence that unintentional persistent organic pollutants were newly formed in waste oil refineries.

The contact group on cement kilns firing hazardous waste restructured the chapter on that source category, to clarify the distinction between the modes of operation of cement production.

Provide detailed methodologies for monitoring, testing and reporting for priority source categories, especially waste incineration,, and cement and, metal manufactures, and pulp and paper production.

5. Cost of waste and waste disposal charges to costs of materials

E. Waste disposal and waste management

Management of waste

Bloody waste of...

Waste management is covered in the action plan 1993 1997, in which targets are set to reduce the overall amount of waste, to reduce the amount of waste entering landfills to 21 per cent of the total amount of waste, to reduce waste incineration to 25 per cent and to recycle 54 per cent of total waste.

CH4 from enteric fermentation, animal waste and waste

Dumping of radioactive waste

Storage of nuclear waste

Dumping of nuclear waste

That's waste of time.

A waste of beer.

Bloody waste of time.

Sectoral synthesis Seventy initial national communications indicated that the energy sector was the largest source of GHG emissions for 45 Parties it was the agriculture sector and for six the waste sector.

The energy sector was the largest source of GHG emissions for 70 Parties, whereas for 45 Parties the agriculture sector was the largest and for six the waste sector was the largest.

Localization, transport and burial of radioactive waste, deactivating materials and maintaining radioactive waste repositories

waste

Waste!

... waste.

8) waste and waste water collection and purification services

waste to landfill hazardous, non hazardous waste water discharges

The fastest growing, or least declining, source of CH4 emissions for about half of the Parties was waste, while the fastest growing source of N2O emissions for the majority of Parties was fuel combustion, mostly for transport purposes, as a consequence of growth in the sector as well as the introduction of catalytic converters.

The largest CH4 emission reductions are expected to emanate from waste management activities reduction of waste disposal in landfills through recycling and waste incineration.

We create mountains of waste.

It's a waste of time.

(f) Disposal of waste water

(b) Management of radioactive waste

It's a waste of time.

What a waste of money.

Right, a waste of time.

For six Parties (AUT, DEU, FIN, GBR, NOR, USA) waste was the most important source of CH4 emissions ranging from 69 per cent for Norway to 36 per cent for the United States of America.

So nature doesn't create waste doesn't create waste as such.

The cities in many developing countries, particularly in Asia, have developed extensive waste economies, structured through itinerant waste buyers, waste pickers, small waste shops, second hand markets, dealers, transporters, and a range of recycling industries.

In the environment, biosensors may be deployed to detect the presence of pollutants in air, soil and water and to track their spread from source points, including factories, agricultural combines, waste disposal plants, etc.

The study shows that the major source of litter into the marine environment is from coastal urban centres owing to the lack of coastal solid waste management, to inadequate management or to the failure of such management.

The database containing the project proposals is organized in accordance with emission source categories proposed in a 1996 IPCC technical paper entitled Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change, namely energy supply residential, commercial and institutional buildings transport industrial agriculture forest and solid waste and waste water disposal.

Diversion of waste from landfills to waste to energy plants is usually pursued through voluntary means or economic incentives, though a Swiss regulation requires incineration of all combustible waste.