{"id":87033,"date":"2022-07-03T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=87033"},"modified":"2022-07-04T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T10:06:35","slug":"govt-first-toxic-management-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-first-toxic-management-policy.html","title":{"rendered":"Center approves policy to manage toxin waste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Climate Change Minister Senator Sherry Rehman shared that the federal cabinet has approved the country\u2019s first-ever toxin waste management policy to reduce the threats to ecology and human life, according to a news story published in the leading newspapers on June 29.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-task-force-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PM for constitution of task force to tackle climate change<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the details, the National Hazardous Waste Management Policy formulated by the climate change ministry will help in controlling the movement of toxic materials including batteries, oil, plastics, hospital waste, and electronic waste. The policy will also help classify toxic materials and form disposal mechanisms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, she revealed that the departmental framework will be devised and provincial and federal environmental protection agencies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/epa-crackdown-against-plastic-bags-use.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EPA<\/a>s) will be strengthened. She further added that a regulatory framework will be formed to ensure the implementation of the policy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/climate-ministry-nature-performance-bonds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Climate change ministry to release Nature Performance Bonds<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reportedly, the centre will develop a national framework with the provinces along with a national plan to control licensing of hazardous waste imports. Climate Change Minister Rehman mentioned that the implementation of the said policy will benefit the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) Plus compliance of the country. She hoped that the climate change ministry will come up with a national plan within three months.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Climate Change Minister Senator Sherry Rehman shared that the federal cabinet has approved the country\u2019s first-ever toxin waste management policy to reduce the threats to ecology and human life, according to a news story published in the leading newspapers on June 29.\u00a0 Read: PM for constitution of task force to tackle climate change As per the details, the National Hazardous Waste Management Policy formulated by the climate change ministry will help in controlling the movement of toxic materials including batteries, oil, plastics, hospital waste, and electronic waste. The policy will also help classify toxic materials and form disposal mechanisms. Moreover, she revealed that the departmental framework will be devised and provincial and federal environmental protection agencies (EPAs) will be strengthened. She further added that a regulatory framework will be formed to ensure the implementation of the policy.&nbsp; Read: Climate change ministry to release Nature Performance Bonds Reportedly, the centre will develop a national framework with the provinces along with a national plan to control licensing of hazardous waste imports. Climate Change Minister Rehman mentioned that the implementation of the said policy will benefit the Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) Plus compliance of the country. She hoped that the climate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":60403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15181],"tags":[46670,40245,10506,52981],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-climate-change-ministry","9":"tag-environment-protection-agency-epa","10":"tag-environmental-protection","11":"tag-govt-approves-first-ever-toxic-management-policy","12":"cat-15181-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Center approves policy to manage toxin waste - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Climate Change Minister Senator Sherry Rehman shared that the federal cabinet has approved the country\u2019s first-ever toxic waste management....\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-first-toxic-management-policy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Center approves policy to manage toxin waste - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Climate Change Minister Senator Sherry Rehman shared that the federal cabinet has approved the country\u2019s first-ever toxic waste management....\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-first-toxic-management-policy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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