Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
Publication Year:
2003
Publication Place
Apia, Samoa
Physical Description:
10 Pages
Call Number
VF 5856 [EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
18326
Legacy PEIN ID:
58240
General Notes
Available online|Kept in vertical file collection
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Subject Heading(s)
Persistent Organic Pollutants - Samoa
Environment - Protection - Samoa
Pollution - Samoa
Waste - Samoa
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:
10 Pages
Call Number
VF 5856 [EL]
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
18326
Legacy PEIN ID:
58240
General Notes
Available online|Kept in vertical file collection
Record Created: 17-Oct-2003
Record Modified: 22-Feb-2021