More substances added to European POPs treaty

CW Briefing, February 2010
Seven new substances, including some brominated flame retardants, were recently added to a list of chemicals “scheduled for elimination” under a European treaty on persistent organic pollutants. Geraint Roberts reports. In December countries met in Geneva to discuss changes to the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Protocol to the Convention on long-range transboundary pollution on persistent organic pollutants (POPS). The...

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