LDC

LDC is the London Dumping Convention, the common name for the 1972 Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, one of the first global treaties to protect the marine environment from waste disposal at sea. Adopted in 1972 and in force from 1975, it originally controlled dumping through a black-list and grey-list system of prohibited and permit-controlled wastes. Its 1996 Protocol modernized and eventually replaced this regime with the precautionary reverse-list approach, banning all dumping except the Annex 1 categories. The IMO administers both instruments; the abbreviation LC72 is also used.