Basel Convention country fact sheet : Kiribati

Hazardous waste including which contains explosives, gases, flammable solids, flammable liquids, corrosive substances, toxic substances, oxidizing agents, organic peroxides, asbestos or substances which emit flammable gases.” A further definition is provided for clinical wastes: “clinical waste including human tissue body fluids, blood, faecal material, materials and equipment which is visibly blood stained with body fluids or faecal matter, materials and equipment which has been used to penetrate the skin, laboratory specimens or culture and any other waste resulting from medical, nursing, dental, pharmaceutical or any other related clinical activity.