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Technical guidelines: General technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with persistent organic pollutants

… the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within Africa ; (d) 1995 Convention to Ban the Importation into Forum Island Countries of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes and to Control the … · Reaches all POP wastes that are classified as hazardous waste; includes a destruction efficiency parameter for …
21 Jun 2026 Document

Ridding the world of POPs - A guide to the Stockholm Convention on POPs

… tackling additional chemicals identified as unacceptably hazardous. Nine such new chemicals were added to the … tackling additional chemicals identified as unacceptably hazardous. Nine such new chemicals were added to the … – dumps of these toxic substances. These stockpiles and waste sites have to be found, managed so that leaks and other …
21 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Persistent Organic Pollutants: Contaminated Site Investigation and Management Toolkit

… Mohammed Tigani, previous consultant of UNIDO/UNEP on waste management in Africa. iii What you will find in this … Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal to, inter alia: … (c) … adverse health effects (current or future) caused by hazardous substance releases from a site in the absence of …
21 Jun 2026 Document

Marine plastic litter and microplastics

… long-range environmental transport. Plastics may contain hazardous substances including POPs, e.g. some plasticizers … to the ocean floor. A less significant share of plastic waste is carried on ocean currents and can accumulate in … Convention on the control of transboundary movements of hazardous waste and their disposal aims to protect human …
21 Jun 2026 Document

POPs Chemicals

… compounds are released into the air, water, soil and solid waste, and degrade to PFOA in the environment and in … firefighting foams. PFOA has been detected in industrial waste, stain resistant carpets, carpet cleaning liquids, … incineration of fluoropolymers from municipal solid waste incineration with inappropriate incineration or open …
21 Jun 2026 Document

POPs Chemicals - Decabromodiphenyl ether (Commercial mixture, c-decaBDE)

… compounds are released into the air, water, soil and solid waste, and degrade to PFOA in the environment and in … firefighting foams. PFOA has been detected in industrial waste, stain resistant carpets, carpet cleaning liquids, … incineration of fluoropolymers from municipal solid waste incineration with inappropriate incineration or open …
21 Jun 2026 Document

POPs Chemicals

… compounds are released into the air, water, soil and solid waste, and degrade to PFOA in the environment and in … firefighting foams. PFOA has been detected in industrial waste, stain resistant carpets, carpet cleaning liquids, … incineration of fluoropolymers from municipal solid waste incineration with inappropriate incineration or open …
21 Jun 2026 Document

POPs and PIC Chemicals

… compounds are released into the air, water, soil and solid waste, and degrade to PFOA in the environment and in … firefighting foams. PFOA has been detected in industrial waste, stain resistant carpets, carpet cleaning liquids, … incineration of fluoropolymers from municipal solid waste incineration with inappropriate incineration or open …
21 Jun 2026 Document

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

… tackling addi- tional chemicals identified as unacceptably hazardous. It recognizes that a special effort may sometimes … – dumps of these toxic substances. These stockpiles and waste sites have to be found, managed so that leaks and other … governments to become familiar with the threats posed by hazardous chemicals, to realize they have to work together, …
21 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Candidate POPs - Pentadecafluorooctanoic acid (PFOA, perfluorooctanoic acid), its salts and PFOA-related compounds

… compounds are released into the air, water, soil and solid waste, and degrade to PFOA in the environment and in … firefighting foams. PFOA has been detected in industrial waste, stain resistant carpets, carpet cleaning liquids, … incineration of fluoropolymers from municipal solid waste incineration with inappropriate incineration or open …
21 Jun 2026 Document