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Environmental Issues, Waste Paper Recommends that Member
countries, taking into account the objectives defined in the
preamble of this document: intensify their efforts by various
means, including through strengthening institutions and
financial arrangements. Recommends that Member countries
practice integrated pollution prevention and control, taking
into account the effects of activities and substances on the
environment as a whole and the whole commercial and
environmental life cycles of substances. Recommends that Member
countries make: i) a greater and more consistent use of economic
instruments as a complement or a substitute to other policy
instruments such as regulations, taking into account national
socio-economic conditions. Decides that, for wastes not to be
subjected to recovery operations, member countries shall
consistent with environmentally sound and efficient management
practices insofar as possible dispose in their own territory the
wast