"“Environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes or other wastes” means taking all practicable steps to ensure that hazardous wastes or  other  wastes  are  managed  in  a  manner  which  will  protect  human  health and the environment against the adverse effects which may result from such wastes."

- Article 3, sub 8, Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, adopted 1989