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UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015

… 17 POPs, and cleaned up 20,000 tons of waste and polluted soil containing pesticide POPs, as well as 13,000 tons of waste and polluted soil containing polychlorinated biphe- nyls (PCBs). The … reducing anthropogenic emissions of mercury into water, soil and air. In so doing, they are helping to reduce the …
19 Jun 2026 Document

Ridding the world of POPs: a Guide to the Stockholm Convention Persitent Organic Polluants

… mixtures of PCBs. Heptachlor – Primarily employed to kill soil insects and termites, heptachlor has also been used more …
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Synergies Success Stories - Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions

… selected data . Data from the large-scale monitoring of soil, sediment and surface water will be included in a new …
19 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste