Reduction of Mercury impact to Health and Environment - enhance sound medical-waste management
Mercury, a toxic substance, gives rise to concerns all over the world since it causes serious damage to human health, wildlife, and ecosystems. When entering the environment, mercury is transmitted by air streams and then falls to Earth again, sometimes near the primary pollution sources or sometimes significantly farther. From soil, mercury can enter streams, rivers, lakes, and oceans. Mercury enters the environment from various sources, including: mercury-containing goods and equipment, sites of goods production, industrial processes, combustion processes including open waste combustion, mining works, iron and steel enterprises, coal combustion, cement production, waste dumps, waste incineration plants, and other sources.
The Project proposed is a practical implementation of project proposals presented, in 2011, in the Strategy. The Project also serves as an example of Tajik NGOs? activities in implementing the IPEN mission to achieve, at the national level, Goal 2020 ?Future without Toxic Substances?. Besides, the Project will contribute to the elaboration of the Tajikistan?s stance on the new international legally binding Mercury Treaty being currently developed. Recommendations and other documents to be prepared under the Project will allow the country to be better prepared for performance of the provisions under the above Treaty.
The overall Project?s objective is to reduce the risk of mercury impact on human health and improve the Tajikistan?s environmental legislation to reduce mercury pollution. The specific Project?s objective is to minimize mercury-containing wastes and devices in Tajikistan.
The Project proposed is a practical implementation of project proposals presented, in 2011, in the Strategy. The Project also serves as an example of Tajik NGOs? activities in implementing the IPEN mission to achieve, at the national level, Goal 2020 ?Future without Toxic Substances?. Besides, the Project will contribute to the elaboration of the Tajikistan?s stance on the new international legally binding Mercury Treaty being currently developed. Recommendations and other documents to be prepared under the Project will allow the country to be better prepared for performance of the provisions under the above Treaty.
The overall Project?s objective is to reduce the risk of mercury impact on human health and improve the Tajikistan?s environmental legislation to reduce mercury pollution. The specific Project?s objective is to minimize mercury-containing wastes and devices in Tajikistan.
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Project Snapshot
Grantee:
CSO 'Dastgiri Center'
Country:
Tajikistan
Area Of Work:
Chemicals
Grant Amount:
US$ 22,822.00
Co-Financing Cash:
US$ 30,000.00
Co-Financing in-Kind:
US$ 24,300.00
Project Number:
TJK/SGP/OP5/CH/CORE/12/03
Status:
Satisfactorily Completed
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Project Characteristics and Results
Project sustainability
This Project can be treated as the initial stage of disposal of mercury-containing medical waste and basic goods in Tajikistan and their withdrawal from application. In future, the Project will be expanded to other regions of the country. This will be supported by both partner organizations providing financial and expert assistance and state institutions of Tajikistan in charge of the implementation of the country?s environmental and health policies.
The Project is completely consistent with interests of the Republic of Tajikistan in terms of minimizing mercury-containing goods among basic goods, liquidating mercury-containing medical waste, and completely terminating the use of mercury-containing medical goods. Representatives of state institutions will be actively involved in the elaboration of recommendations and other project documents, thus guarantying that these documents address the state institutions? opinion. Further implementation of the recommendations, beyond this Project, will contribute to the implementation of the country? environmental policy.
Project?s sustainability will consist in changed practices of the health facilities involved in the Project. They will pay more attention to and coordinate separate collection of wastes, first of all, separation of mercury-containing wastes and their separate storage with subsequent removal for safe storage and disposal.
Demonstration of the operation of a pilot installation for medical waste disposal will contribute to the increased interest of health facilities and local authorities, thus leading to procurement of additional technologies, their installation and maintenance by efforts of health centers and local communities.
The Project will have specific economic incentives and benefits that will allow establishing a system of separate collection and further disposal of medical waste by environmentally and economically sound methods, and collection, by reception points, of exhausted luminescent lamps and their replacement with new ones. Incentives should be developed to strengthen health facilities? interest in procurement of medical waste disposal installations. For example, the Project will undertake the initiative to stimulate the population to deliver exhausted lamps in return for the new lamps (1 new lamp for 5 old lamps).
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