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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 … ning cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. • It establishes a POPs Review Committee that …
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 … should mitigate the underlying causes of ecosystem degradation, while simultaneously improving human health, …