Practical Guide on Transboundary Waste Movements

Dr. Joachim Wuttke studied chemistry at the Ruhr University of Bochum, where he received his PhD in organic photochemistry in 1985. From November 1985 to April 2018, he was a scientific employee at the German Federal Environment Agency. From 1993 to 2018, he was head of the section "Municipal Waste Management, Hazardous Waste, Focal Point to the Basel Convention". From 1990 to 2005, Dr Joachim Wuttke was a lecturer for "Packaging and Environment" at the University of Applied Science in Berlin. He has worked as a short-term expert in EU programmes such as "Twinning" and TAIEX in Bulgaria, Estonia, Israel, the Slovak Republic, Poland, Turkey and Egypt. He has also worked as a consultant for the OSCE and other organisations.

He chaired the project group "Collection and Transboundary Movement of Used and End-of-life Mobile Phones" of the Mobile Phone Partnership Initiative of the Basel Convention. Within the Partnership for Action on Computer Equipment (PACE) of the Basel Convention, he co-chaired the project groups "Transboundary Movement of Used and End-of-Life Com-puting Equipment" and "Environmentally Sound Material Recovery/Recycling of End-of-Life Computing Equipment".
In the Framework of Basel Convention he developed the Biomedical and Health-Care Waste Guideline of the Basel Convention, including inter-governmental negotiations. Furthermore he developed and proposed amendments of the Waste Lists of the Basel Convention, including inter-governmental negotiations of these amendments.
From May 2018, he has been working as a consultant (e.g. for the Basel Convention Secretariat) and is, among other things, a lecturer/speaker in particular on issues related to transfrontier waste shipments and waste classification.