With the aim of advancing towards a better management of hazardous waste in our country, the Council of Ministers for Sustainability and Climate Change recently approved the regulation that regulates the cross-border movement of waste, pending the preparation of a report by the Ministry of Health for the final approval of this law.

As part of the context, it is important to detail that the regulation is a regulation that Chile has pending since the signing of the Basel Convention in 1992 and its entry into the OECD in 2010, and with its approval the export and import of hazardous waste as tires, mineral, technological waste, among others.

In detail, this project authorizes the international traffic of hazardous waste against the trend of the Basel Convention and the OECD, which is to minimize the generation of waste and, if it exists, to treat it by those who generate it.

The approval by the Council of Ministers of the Regulation will allow -to the extent of its prompt processing- that the current administration complies with the international commitments acquired by Chile when signing the Basel Convention; to the sanitary objectives established for the treatment of waste, and to the environmental purposes contained in Law No. 20,920 (REP Law).

At Hidronor we will continue to monitor the progress of this regulation to offer our clients the waste management alternatives and treatments that best suit their needs, always ensuring that they offer a quality service with guaranteed safety.

Source: Diario Financiero