Search results
3 Results
Sorted by relevance
Towards a Pollution Free Planet - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… solid fuel heating, and the unregulated burning of waste materials such as plastics and batteries Figure 4: Air … product of poor agricultural practices, dumping of waste from households, industrial plants and mine tailings … informal recycling of lead-acid batteries and electronic waste, poor incineration of hospital waste, and mismanagement …
Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts
… of POP s (e.g., PCB s storage sites and other POP s waste sites). EnVirOnMenTAl FATe And lOnG-rAnGe TrAnSPOrT OF … usage of ddT for malaria control + Ritter et al., 2011 Waste site leakage due to permafrost thawing and rising sea … POP s due to proximity to point sources (manufacturing or waste sites) or due to occupational exposure. For a few POP s …