Basel Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Recovery of Used Lead Acid Batteries

1. Basel Technical Guidelinesfor the Environmentally Sound Recovery of Used Lead Acid Batteries Training Manual for the Preparation of National Management Plans for Used Lead Acid Batteries

2. Technical Guidelines • TWG - May 2002 • Adopted Unanimously • Cop VI December 2003 • Adopted Unanimously • Parties invited to use TG. • Parties asked to review TG

3. Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales Dominican Republic Cuba México C A R I R I Barbados Jamaica Caribbean Industrial Research Institute St. Lucia Trinidad & Tobago Costa Rica El Salvador Venezuela Panama Colombia UNCTAD ILMC Bahamas SBC ULAB Project Participants

4. ULAB - Training Manual • Assessment of ESM • Collection, Storage – Shipping • Formal Sector Strategies • Informal Sector Controls • Communication and Information • Site Remediation • Occupational Health and Safety • Transboundary Regs.

5. ULAB - Training Manual Benefits • Prepared by Project Participants • SBC, ILMC, UNCTAD and UWI • Based on Best Practice • Provides numerous examples • Will be available in 3 languages • Will be “on-line”

6. Training Manual – Ch. 1

7. Training Manual – Ch. 1 ESM Assessment for ULAB • Inventory • LAB retailers • Recycling Processes • Health and Safety • Public education/awareness • Policy development • Consolidation of “informals”

8. Training Manual – Ch. 2 Environmentally Sound Collection, Storage, Transportation • Collection Infrastructure • Successful ULAB Recovery • Environmentally Sound Schemes • Methods of Collecting ULAB • Storage of ULAB • Transportation of ULAB • Safety

9. Strategies - no formal recyclers • Strategies - with formal recyclers • Regional strategies Training Manual – Ch. 3 Strategies & Policies for Recycling ULAB in the Formal Sector Aim – Enhance Formal Sector role • Recovery & recycling rational • Importance of recycling profiles • National ESM strategies

10. Training Manual – Ch. 4 Strategies & Policies for Recycling ULAB in the Informal Sector Aim – To “formalize” the “informal” • Social Dimension • Advocates preserving skills • Promotes change of operations • Provides options: • Long/Short term • Restructuring

11. Training Manual – Ch. 5 Communication & Education • Communication Tools • Written Information/Labels • Maintenance Manuals • Multi-media and Internet • Publications and Posters • Communication Strategies • Educational • Community Outreach

12. Training Manual – Ch. 6 Site Remediation • Core Principles • Core elements - Investigation - Identification - Remediation • Work Plans - Treatments - Communication - Aftercare • Regulations

13. Training Manual – Ch. 7 Occupational Health & Safety • Potential Health & Safety Risks • Occupational Surveillance - Lead in Blood Monitoring • Personal Protective Equipment - Respirators, gloves, boots • Amenities/Housekeeping • Emissions Monitoring

14. Training Manual – Ch. 8 ULAB Transboundary Movements • ULAB Classification • Under Basel Convention • Under the WCO • Basel Controls for ULAB • Financial guarantees • Legal requirements • Safe Movement of ULAB • Illegal ULAB Traffic

15. ULAB - Training Manual What happens now? • Key Development Tool • National Plans for ESM of ULAB • Central & South America • Caribbean Island States • Cambodia / other ULAB projects • Model for other Waste Management Systems

16. ULAB - Training Manual Thank You