The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Mercury Storage Project Regional Consultation meeting is a platform for presenting the draft “Options Analysis for the Safe Long Term Storage of Mercury in the LAC Region,” prepared by the Laboratorio Tecnológico del Uruguay. The meeting will also address progress on mercury storage made in the US and the EU, the suggested framework for decision making for the safe management of excess mercury, relevant chapters in the draft Basel technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of mercury waste, and the UNEP Global Mercury Partnership on Supply and Storage.
dates: 14-15 April 2010
location: Santiago, Chile
phone: 41 22 917 8183
fax: 41 22 797 3460
e-mail: mercury@chemicals.unep.ch
www: http://www.chem.unep.ch/mercury/storage/Regional_Consultation_LAC.htm