Expenditure on hazardous waste treatment. Total expenditures by government institutions, state-owned enterprises, municipalities, or by the private sector on treatment of all hazardous wastes indicating breakdown of total costs for each type of hazardous wastes according to definitions in the Basel Convention.
Treatment includes some disposal operations as described in the Basel Convention.
Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous Wastes, including Prevention of Illegal International Traffic in Hazardous Wastes. Increase in expenditures inhazardous waste treatment may indicate an increased concern by government and the private-sector to reduce threats of exposure to hazardous wastes. Care must be taken in the interpretation of the indicator. The indicator may also indicate an increased generation or importation of hazardous wastes at the national level. In addition, a decrease in expenditure on hazardous waste treatment could be the result of the introduction of waste minimization practices in the production process, decreases in the manufacture of goods which generate hazardous wastes due to economic recession, or the shifting of public and private sector expenditures to other priority areas.