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GUIDANCE on feasible flame-retardant alternatives to commercial pentabromodiphenyl ether - 2009 (UNEP/POPS/COP.4/INF24)

… Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) GUIDANCE on feasible flame-retardant alternatives to commercial pentabromodiphenyl ether … Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) GUIDANCE on feasible flame-retardant alternatives to commercial pentabromodiphenyl … GUIDANCE on feasible flame-retardant alternatives to commercial pentabromodiphenyl …
15 Apr 2026 Document

Vital Waste Graphics 3

… dangerous, contaminated with used oil, asbestos cladding, flame retardants, toxic paints, heavy metals, amongst others. … Fresh water Medicinal resources VITAL WASTE GRAPHICS 326 5 flame retardants: PBDE- ... 47 153 154 183 209 Flame retardant exposure Source: Sjödin et al., Flame retardant
15 Apr 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

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

… – This industrial chemical has been used as a flame retardant, mainly in the 1970s.  Hexabromodiphenyl ether and … in organic materials and therefore are used as additive flame retardants. / Hexachlorobenzene (HCB) – HCB kills …
15 Apr 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Supporting document on “The POP separation process in the recycling of WEEE” (EERA)

… plastics, which include the plastics with brominated flame retardants containing both brominated flame retardants (BFRs) that can still be used and those … These plastics include the solid plastics with brominated flame retardants. In the average mix of solid plastics wastes …
15 Apr 2026 Document

The 16 New POPs - An introduction to the chemicals added to the Stockholm Convention as Persistent Organic Pollutants by the Conference of the Parties

… humans. Use and production DecaBDE is used as an additive flame retardant, and has a variety of applications including in … is an industrial chemical that has been used as a flame retardant, mainly in the 1970s. According to available …
15 Apr 2026 Document

POPs-free initiative

… A of the Convention with a specific exemption. Paxymer™ A flame retardant system, entitled Paxymer™ and developed by PP … and processing properties and does not contain brominated flame retardants and POPs listed in Annex A, B or C of the …
15 Apr 2026 Document

POPs Review Committee – Listing new chemicals

… used in PCB products, dyestuff carriers, as a fungicide, a flame retardant and a chemical intermediate such as the production … combustion in organic material, which are used as additive flame retardants. Brominated diphenyl ethers are mainly …
15 Apr 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

POPs Chemicals

… ether (DecaBDE) has been mainly used as an additive flame retardant combining with the material where it is used to … softeners in plastics, paints, coatings and sealants, as flame retardants in rubber, plastics and textiles as well as …
15 Apr 2026 Document

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

… ether (DecaBDE) has been mainly used as an additive flame retardant combining with the material where it is used to … softeners in plastics, paints, coatings and sealants, as flame retardants in rubber, plastics and textiles as well as …
15 Apr 2026 Document

Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts

… in paints and joint sealants, and PBde s used as flame retardants. The effect of temperature on primary … POP s present in commercial products, such as brominated flame retardants and perfluorinated compounds (Bohlin et al., … 2). Additionally, indoor sources of some POP s used as flame retardants (e.g., PBde s) and stain prevention (e.g., …
15 Apr 2026 Document