Project

Reducing UPOPs and mercury releases from healthcare waste management, e-waste treatment, scrap processing and biomass burning.

Lead country

Colombia

Participating countries

Colombia

Project status

Under implementation

Implementing period

From January 12, 2017 to January 12, 2022

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 3.9 Reduce deaths from pollution
  2. 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  3. 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production

Project ID: 5481

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Technical team

  • Chemicals and Waste Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Persistent organic pollutants
  • Heavy metals

Sub-area(s)

  • Unintentional POPs (e.g. furans, dioxins)
  • Mercury

Landscape(s)

  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Industrial site
  • Rural areas

Transformed sector(s)

  • Materials and manufacturing

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Data collection and analysis
  • Institutional mechanism and system building

Strategy

  • Management operation
  • Monitor inventory
  • Law regulation

Sub-strategy

  • Waste management
  • Waste/pollutants monitoring
  • Pollution control

Social inclusion

  • Private sector
  • Local community/CSOs
  • Waste pickers.

Gender equality

  • Awareness raising (on gender)

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender responsive

Pathway(s)

  • Systems pathway
  • Sci-tech pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation

SDG target(s)

  • 3.9 Reduce deaths from pollution
  • 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  • 12.a Build developing country capacity on sustainable consumption, production

Conventions and protocols

  • Stockholm Convention (POPs)

Private sector(s)

  • Large corporations
  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Structural/system transformation
  • health.

About this project

Description

Introduce Best Environmental Practices (BEP) and Best Available Technologies (BAT) to reduce the release of unintentionally generated Persistent Organic Pollutants (UPOPs) and mercury from the treatment of healthcare waste (HCW), the processing of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), processing of iron and steel, and biomass burning in the sugarcane sector.

Objectives

The main objective of this 5-year project is to introduce the Best Environmental Practices (MPA) and the Best Available Technologies (BAT) to reduce the release of unintended Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and mercury from the treatment of hospital waste, of waste processing of electrical and electronic devices (WEEE), of steel processing, and of the burning of biomass in the sugar sector.

USD $5,950,000

Grant amount

USD $32,915,018

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($5,950,000)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Colombia

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