El-Dars, Farida M. S. El-Din. INDUSTRIAL HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT IN EGYPT: THE PROPOSED GUIDELINES
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt (fkeldars@hotmail.com)
The issue of industrial hazardous waste management in Egypt is a new concept that was first introduced in 1992 by the action plan and its framework environmental law. While each document addressed the topic within its own context, no feasible project components were identifiable from the plan to provide for the infrastructure needed to establish a national waste management system as required by the law. In response, a transition document (a baseline study) was initiated by mid 1992. As it stands today, the study’s recommended short and long term actions have come to represent the major components of the provisional national system after going into the implementation phase by the end of last century. This article will review the development of this issue within the three documents providing an insight on how the initiated projects came to serve the ultimate goal of establishing this national waste management system.