Better Environmental Sustainability Targets (BEST) Public Documents

The BEST Standard can be downloaded here.

Below are some additional links for web sites and public documents that provide background information for the standard setting process:

• OK Environment, Standard Setting Work Program (July 31, 2008)

• Response to Public Comments Received on the draft BEST Standard (dated June 22, 2007)

• Response to Public Comments Received on the draft BEST Standard (dated March 15, 2007)

• OK international, Questions and Answers on the Environmental Certification of Lead Battery Manufactures , 2007.

• OK International: Terms of Reference for Better Environmental Sustainability Targets (BEST) for Lead Battery Manufacturers , 2007.

• OK international, List of BEST Stakeholder Meeting Participants .

• OK International, Table I: Overview of Voluntary Corporate Responsibility Initiatives .

• Government of India, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Rajagopalan, V. Recent Indian Policy Initiative in Lead Battery Scrap Management and their Impact on the Domestic Demand-Supply Gap of Lead .

• Government of India, Ministry of Environment and Forest, ECOMAK CRITERIA FOR BATTERIES.

• Government of India, Ministry of Environment and Forest, Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001.

• International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance Secretariat, Code of Good Practices for Setting Social and Environmental Standards, January, 2006.

• Social Accountability International, Social Accountability 8000.

• World Bank, Pollution Prevention and Abatement Handbook, LEAD, July 1998, pp. 215-218.

• India Lead Zinc Development Association, Recommendation & Suggestions, - The Karnataka Model , December 2002.

• OK International, Table II: Summary of Lead Regulatory Levels and Proposed Standards (March 2006) .

• The Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics Medical Management Guidelines for Lead - Exposed Adult, 2005.

• Secretariat of the Basel Convention, Technical Guideline for the Environmental Sound Management of Waste Lead-Acid Batteries, 2003. (63 pages)

• Secretariat of the Basel Convention, Training Manual for the Preparation of National Used Lead Acid Batteries Environmentally Sound Management plans in the Context of the Implementation of the Basel Convention. 2004 (172 pages)