Swaziland

Land Area total: 17,364 sq km country comparison to the world: 158

land: 17,204 sq km

water: 160 sq km

Population 1,123,913

country comparison to the world: 156

note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected.

Gross Domestic Product (GDPi) $5.826 billion (2008 est.)

country comparison to the world: 155

$5.673 billion (2007 est.)

$5.481 billion (2006 est.)

note: data are in 2008 US dollars

Human Development Index (HDIi) 0.572 (142)
Happy Planet Index (HPIi) 18.38 (177)
note: 2006 ranking, no data for 2009
Development Statusi LMCi, IBRDi
The World Factbook 2009. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 2009.
Basel Conventioni Focal Point  
Web address www.sea.org.sz
Name Mboni
Surname Dlamini
Address 3rd Floor, New SPTC Building, Industrial Site P.O. Box 2602
City Mbabane
Postal Code H100
Tel +268 404 6960
Fax +268 404 1719
Email mdlamini(at)sea.org.sz; tkhumalo(at)sea.org.sz
 
Waste Management Legislation Waste Regulations, 2000
Chemicals Management Legislation Environmental Management Act, 2002
Occupational Health and Safety Act, 2001
Public Health Act, 1969
 
International Conventions  
Basel Convention BC – 08.08.05 (Accessioni) Ban amendment – not acceded Protocol on liability – not acceded
Rotterdam Conventioni not acceded
Stockholm Conventioni 13.01.2006 (Accession)
Other Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAsi)
  • Montréal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
  • All Amendments to the Montréal Protocol
  • Convention on Use and Stockpiling of Chemical Weapons
  • Convention of Biological Biodiversity
  • United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  • Convention to Combat Desertification
 
Local projects Development of a National Implementation Plan under the Stockholm Convention
Institutional Strengthening Project for Implementation of the Montreal Protocoli Under the Montreal Protocol
 
Hazardous waste statistics available no
National inventory of waste no
National inventory on Chemicals There are preliminary reports that have been developed in the National Implementation Plan for Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
Recycling facilities Used oil recycling facility
Which materials are collected and recycled? Used oil – 200 000l per year
   
The National Solid Waste Management Strategy Goal: To develop and maintain an integrated waste management system to reduce the adverse impacts of all forms of solid waste, so that social and economic development in Swaziland, the health of its people and the quality of its environment and its resources benefit.
Strategy was developed as interventions on the Waste Hierarchy (prevention, recycling, collection, transport, treatment and disposal) in order to address generali waste as well as special (health care risk waste and hazardous wastei).
Hazardous waste landfill sites none. Waste is exported
e-wastei management no data available