Waste and Chamicals Management in CARICOM Countries- Basel Convention.
The Basel Convention is the most comprehensive international legal instrument on hazardous and other wastes. Its principal objective is the protection of human health and the environment.
The need for decisive action to control hazardous wastes gained international prominence during the 1980s, upon recognition and concerns that such wastes were increasingly being transported from developed nations to developing countries. These practices resulted in
unsafe disposal of these substances, to the detriment of human and environmental health. The Basel Convention was negotiated to be the primary international response to this problem, by controlling the transboundary movement (TBM) of hazardous and other wastes.
