Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
2003
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
various pagings ; 29 cm
Call Number
VF 5837 [EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
18306
Legacy PEIN ID:
58220
General Notes
Available online|Unpublished
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Organic Pollutants - Fiji
Pollution - Fiji
Waste - Fiji
Abstract
The Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) several years ago identified the mismanagement of hazardous chemicals in the Pacific Island Countries as a serious environmental concern, and hence the Persistent Organic Pollutants in Pacific Island Countries (POPs in PICs) project was developed as an AusAID funded initiative, to be carried out by SPREP. POPs are a group of twelve particularly hazardous chemicals that have been singled out by the recent Stockholm Convention for urgent action to eliminate them from the world. They include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which are mainly found in transformers, and several pesticides that are very persistent and toxic to the environment.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
2003
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
various pagings ; 29 cm
Call Number
VF 5837 [EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
18306
Legacy PEIN ID:
58220
General Notes
Available online|Unpublished
Record Created: 15-Oct-2003
Record Modified: 22-Feb-2021