Project

Uruguay: Environmental Sound Life-Cycle Management of Mercury Containing Products and their Wastes

Lead country

Uruguay

Participating countries

Uruguay

Project status

Closure

Implementing period

From February 26, 2014 to November 30, 2020

SDGs addressed by this project

SDG targets

  1. 12.1 Implement 10-year framework on sustainable consumption, production
  2. 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  3. 12.6 Encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices, reporting

Project ID: 5084

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Technical team

  • Chemicals and Waste Programme

Technical area(s)

  • Heavy metals
  • Waste management

Sub-area(s)

  • Mercury
  • Hazardous_chemical_waste

Landscape(s)

  • Human altered areas

Sub-landscape(s)

  • Industrial site

Transformed sector(s)

  • Materials and manufacturing

UNDP role(s)

  • Capacity development / Technical assistance
  • Institutional mechanism and system building
  • Normative support

Strategy

  • Governance
  • Law regulation
  • Capacity building

Sub-strategy

  • Institutional framework
  • Pollution control
  • Institutional capacity building
  • Community capacity building
  • Technical capacity building

Social inclusion

  • Local community/CSOs
  • Private sector

Gender equality

  • Awareness raising (on gender)

Gender result effectiveness scale

  • Gender targeted

Pathway(s)

  • People pathway
  • Systems pathway

Risk reduction target(s)

  • Hazard control/mitigation

SDG target(s)

  • 12.1 Implement 10-year framework on sustainable consumption, production
  • 12.4 Achieve environmentally sound chemical, waste management
  • 12.6 Encourage companies to adopt sustainable practices, reporting

Conventions and protocols

  • Minamata Convention on Mercury

Private sector(s)

  • Small and medium-sized enterprises

Hot topic

  • Health
  • Structural/system transformation

About this project

Description

Protect human health and the environment from Mercury releases originating from the intentional use of mercury in products and the unsound management and disposal of such products, by i) Strengthening the regulatory and policy framework for the sound LCM of mercury containing products and their wastes; ii) Phasing-out and phasing-down mercury containing devices and products by introducing mercury-free alternatives or products with a lower Mercury content, iii) Improving national capacity (technical, financial, private sector) to make LCM of Mercury containing products technically and economically feasible.

Objectives

The objective of the project is protect human health and the environment from Mercury releases originating from the intentional use of mercury in products and the unsound management and disposal of such products.

USD $2,510,600

Grant amount

USD $3,007,760

Leveraged amount (co-financing)

1

Source(s) of fund

Sources of fund

 

  • Global Environment Facility – Trust Fund ($2,510,600)

Implementing partner(s)

  • Government of Uruguay

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Uruguay: Environmental Sound Life-Cycle Management of Mercury Containing Products and their Wastes