ORDER

1. Hazardous wastes are highly toxic in nature. Industrialisation has had the effect of generation of huge quantities of hazardous wastes. These and other side effects of development gave birth to principles of sustainable development so as to sustain industrial growth. The hazardous waste requires adequate and proper control and handling. Efforts are required to be made to minimise it. In developing nations, there are additional problems including that of dumping of hazardous waste on their lands by some of the nations where cost of destruction of such waste is felt very heavy. These and other

allied problems gave birth to the Basel Convention. The key objectives of the Basel Convention are:

"to minimise the generation of hazardous wastes in terms of quantity and hazardousness;

to dispose of them as close to the source of generation as possible; to reduce the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes."

2. Due to alarming situation created by dumping of hazardous waste, its generation and serious and irreversible damage, as a result thereof, to the environment, flora and fauna, health of animals and human beings, the petitioner approached this Court under Article 32 complain