Obsolete Pesticides
Posted on October 2, 2012.
Milieukontakt International is one of the partners in the new EU funded FAO project Improving capacities to eliminate and prevent recurrence of obsolete pesticides as a model for tackling unused hazardous chemicals in the former Soviet Union, together with the International HCH and Pesticides Association and Green Cross Switzerland. The overall objective of the project [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2012.
Mongolia’s economy is booming. International investments for exploration of the extensive mineral deposits resulted in a growth rate of close to 20 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. But pesticides problems from the past – when the country was a Soviet satellite – remain unsolved. A mission form Milieukontakt and the International HCH [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2011.
Milieukontakt is co-author of the recent brochure The Eliminators in Moldova, published within the GEF/FAO project Capacity Building on Obsolete and POPs Pesticides in EasternEuropean Caucasus and Central Asian Countries. The brochure was prepared to serve as an example and inspiration for those who will work or are already working on problems related to obsolete [...]
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Posted on December 15, 2009.
ON PROBLEMS OF PERCISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (POPs) IN REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN AND THE METHODS OF THEIR SOLUTIONS At the conference of United Nations for the environment and development (Rio-de-Janeiro) and World Summit on sustainable development (Johannesburg, August – September, 2002) special attention was given to security issues of the use of chemical substances of the [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2009.
Tauw, Witteveen & Bos, the International HCH & Pesticides Association, Milieukontakt and Green Cross – Switzerland publish the interim reports of the Obsolete Pesticides Technical Study in the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan. The project is financed by the Canada Persistent Organic Pollutants Fund, through the World Bank. Local [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2009.
BRNO, Czech Republic, Sept. 23 /CNW/ – According to Milieukontakts Partner IHPA (the International HCH and Pesticides Association) the health of at least 7 million inhabitants in Moldavia and Ukraine is seriously threatened by a stock of old pesticides. IHPA calls for fast EU action to disarm this ‘biggest chemical time bomb of Europe’. This [...]
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Posted on August 19, 2009.
Since 2005 a consortium of Milieukontakt International, the International HCH and Pesticides Association, engineering company Tauw BV and the Dutch NGO Natuur en Milieu (Nature and Environment) has been involved in the elimination of risks of obsolete pesticides in several countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.While working on the inventory and repacking of obsolete [...]
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Posted on August 18, 2009.
In May this year the consortium of Tauw, Witteveen & Bos, the International HCH & Pesticides Association, Milieukontakt and Green Cross – Switzerland was selected by the World Bank to implement the project: Obsolete Pesticides Technical Study in the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, and the Republic of Uzbekistan. The project is financed by [...]
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Posted on December 29, 2008.
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, [...]
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Posted on October 20, 2008.
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 [...]
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Posted on September 23, 2008.
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, [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2008.
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 [...]
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Posted on September 17, 2008.
Osh Region – After the Moldova campaign of 2006 and the Georgia Campaign of May 2008 Milieukontakt starts to repackage old stocks of pesticides in the Osh region of Kyrgyzstan. Trained by experts from the Dutch engineering company Tauw and the Hungarian Agruniver Holding a local team from the Kyrgyz Emergency Ministry has repackaged approximately [...]
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Posted on May 26, 2008.
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 hazardous waste to [...]
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Posted on December 31, 2007.
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.
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Posted on June 28, 2007.
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 [...]
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Posted on May 18, 2007.
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 [...]
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Posted on May 15, 2007.
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 discussion [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2007.
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 [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2006.
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 [...]
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