Reducing UPOPs and Mercury Releases from Healthcare Waste Management, e-Waste Treatment, Scrap Processing and Biomass Burning

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 El

Financial mechanism

GEF

Date of approval

2016

Status

Project approved

URL

https://www.thegef.org/projects-operations/projects/6928

Countries

Colombia

Managing organisations

Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADS)

Implementing organisations

UNDP

Project ID

6928

GEF project type

Full size

GEF project phase

GEF - 6

GEF Cofinancing

$32.915.018

GEF project grant

$5.800.000