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UNEP - Our Planet Magazine - Making Our Future Chemical Safe - Edition from Sept 2015
… the economic toll of health costs associated with air pollution in the United States alone is US$120 billion per … 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 …
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 … sites is a delicate job that risks leakage and additional pollution, and the safe destruction or containment of PCBs … to provide ever-better measures for preventing such pollution. 13 RID D IN G TH E W O RLD O F PO PS Aim No. 4: …
Synergies Success Stories - Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions
… MARPOL International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships MEA Multilateral Environmental Agreement … disposed of in 2010 . In order to reduce the environmental pollution in the world caused by the export of waste … selected data . Data from the large-scale monitoring of soil, sediment and surface water will be included in a new …