Kalenderblad April
Op het kalenderblad van april staat Khatuna Akhalaia centraal.
Zij heeft in Georgië gewerkt aan het in kaart brengen van locaties
waar de bodem verontreinigd is door pesticiden.
Georgia
Training of Trainers workshop on Obsolete Pesticides-Invitation to apply
Within the project Capacity Building on Obsolete and POPs Pesticides in Eastern European Caucasus and Central Asian Countries a Training of Trainers on Obsolete Pesticides Inventory, Environmental Risk Assessment and Safeguarding will be organised in Minsk, from 18-19 January 2010. Milieukontakt is a partner within this GEF FAO project, as well as IHPA, Green Cross [...]
Read Full PostInternational Training Programme ”Local Environmental Management in Urban Areas”
Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Serbia and Kosovo have been invited to nominate candidates to the above mentioned programme scheduled to take place September 7 – 25, 2009. The training is administered by SIPU International AB (www.sipuinternational.se).
International Training Programmes (ITP) are organised by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). These [...]
Volkskrant bericht over opslag van Pesticides
Op 20 december is een bericht verschenen van de hand van Sacha Kester in de Volkskrant, gebaseerd op interviews met Sandra Molenkamp, Wouter Pronk en John Vijgen, met als titel : Sovjet-Unie liet giftige erfenis na.
Hieronder vindt u een quote van dit artikel:
Duizenden tonnen gif liggen onbeschermd in landen van de voormalige Sovjet-Unie, de bevolking [...]
Milieukontakts pesticidenproject in Villa VPRO
Maar liefst 300.000 ton landbouwgif liggen onveilig opgeslagen in de voormalige Soviet Republieken en bedreigen de leefomgeving van de lokale bevolking. Milieukontakt vindt dat dat niet kan en helpt mee met het opruimen van deze chemicalien.
Het programma “Villa VPRO” interviewde Wouter Pronk
In De Ervaring Van praten we met Wouter Pronk, projectleider van Milieukontakt International. Hij [...]
Milieuhelden Campaign starts September 26th
September 26th 2008, Milieukontakt will officially start the campaign to attract more supporters for initiatives to improve the environment. The Milieuhelden (Environmental heroes) campaign features strong individuals that want to make a difference for the environment in their country.
In this first stage of the Campaign Milieukontakt cooperates with four heroes:
Khatuna Akhalaia from Georgia, [...]
Obsolete pesticides a burning question
Friday 26th of September Milieukontakt will organise an expert meeting on alternatives for the incineration of obsolete pesticides. International experts will discuss two options for destruction of pesticides without burning them. One option is a Japanese technique using a mechanochemical instrument and the other is called super critical water oxidation.
During the meeting both techniques are [...]
Milieukontakt starts repackaging obsolete pesticides in Georgia
Kakheti Region – After the Moldova campaign of 2006 Milieukontakt starts to repackage old stocks of pesticides in the Kakheti region of Georgia. Trained by experts from the Dutch engineering company Tauw a local team of individuals have repackaged approximately 80 tons of old stocks and transported some 100 tons of less [...]
Read Full PostProject: 2005-2007 Obsolete pesticides MD, AM, GG
2005-2007 Obsolete pesticides MD, KG, GG
Elimination of acute risks of obsolete pesticides in Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia
Aim: the elimination of acute risks of dissemination of obsolete pesticides, through storage and elimination of the pesticides.
Conference on Obsolete pesticides
Today Milieukontakt organises a conference on obsolete pesticides in Amsterdam. In the former USSR there a still a lot of old and broken storages containing huge amounts of poisonous pesticides. The pesticides are often not properly stored anymore and the pesticides are leaking into the soil and water. These pesticides are a ticking time bomb [...]
Read Full PostThe Eliminators – First shots from Obsolete Pesticdes documentory film available
Milieukontakt has organized an international conference on the problems of Obsolete Pesticides. The conference will take place on June 28th in Amsterdam. During this conference, Milieukontakt will present a Moldovan documentory film on the multi-stakeholder way that the organization is trying to solve this problem in Moldova, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. For an impression of the [...]
Read Full PostEU Public Hearing on the dangers of Obsolete Pesticides
On the 2nd of May, EU parliamentarians, scientists and professionals gathered in Brussels for the Public Hearing on the dangers of obsolete pesticides. The event was hosted by Wieslaw Kuc, a member of the European Parliament and an active supporter of initiatives aimed at the elimination of acute risks posed by obsolete pesticides. The [...]
Read Full PostObsolete Pesticides in Kyrgystan threaten public health and the environment
On a Milieukontakt inception mission to Kyrgystan in October last year a lot of dangerous old pesticides stocks were found in broken down storage facilities. In many places the pesticides were lying in the open air and near inhabited areas. The old stock pose a serious threat to public health and the environment.
Between 1st and [...]
Georgian Environmental Minister Welcomes Repackaging of Obsolete Pesticides
In the presence of the Dutch ambassador, local authorities, NGOs and a lot of press the Georgian environmental minister David Tkeshelashvili opened on December 3th Milieukontakt's obsolete pesticides repackaging activities in the Khakheti region of Georgia.
Since 1998 December 3 is internationally known as the "No Pesticides Day" to commemorate the world’s worst chemical disaster of [...]
Project: 2005-2006 Bridging the Gap
2005-2006 Bridging the Gap
Bridging the Gap in public participation
Aim: The project aims to improve communication between international representatives of the environmental movement and their supporters on national and grass root level. This concerns NGOs in the EECCA countries as well as the ones operating on the EU-level.
Global Scope: EECCA countries: Russia, Ukraine, Molodova, Georgia, Armenia, [...]
Inception mission Armenia acomplished
From 7-13 May, 2006 Milieukontakt has conducted an inception mission to Armenia in the framework of the TMF funded project: Elemination of acute risk of Obsolete Pesticides in Moldova, Georgia and Armenia. Together with two experts of the Dutch company Tauw, a first impression of the state of afairs concerning storage conditions and stored quantities [...]
Read Full PostHuge amount of obsolete pesticides found In Kakheti region in Georgia
During an inventory with 7 NGO members, specialists and government officials, Jan Betlem found around 150 tons of obsolete pesticides in the Kakheti region in Georgia. “The situation is really serious” Jan Betlem said from his current assignment in Mali. “We found several places deteriorated and filled with chemicals in torn bags and rousted barrels. [...]
Read Full PostMilieukontakt is looking for a regional coordinator in the Georgian Kakheti region
ANNOUNCEMENT REGIONAL COORDINATOR KAKHETI REGION
Old stocks of pesticides are threathening public health and the environment in almost every former Soviet country. Most of the time these so called ‘obsolete pesticides’ are kept badly maintained hangars. Sometimes the local population has taken the hangars even apart. Thus leaving the heavily toxic pesticides lay around in the [...]
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