Kalenderblad Mei
In Moldavië werkt Rodica Iordanov aan het
herstellen van vervuilde grond met behulp van
planten als pompoen en courgette.
Zie kalenderblad mei.
Obsolete Pesticides
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.
Kalenderblad Februari
In Oekraïne werkt Milieuheld
Anna Golubovska van MAMA-86.
Lees over het werk van MAMA-86
op onze Milieuheldenkalender 2010.
Zie het kalenderblad van Februari 2010
Kalender januari en voorblad
In januari stellen we Milieuheld Kurbonali Partojev voor. Hij werkt mee aan een project in Tadzjikistan. Meer hierover leest u op het kalenderblad van januari: kalenderblad januari
Hierbij ook het vooorblad van de kalender: Voorblad
Read Full PostPress-release: Seminar on POPs on December 19-20, 2009 in Dushanbe
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 increased [...]
Milieuheldenkalender 2010 is verstuurd!
Aan het eind van dit jaar ontvangen de relaties en de donateurs van Milieukontakt een kalender voor 2010. De kalender heeft als thema “Milieuhelden”. In 2008 zijn wij begonnen met de Milieuheldencampagne om geld in te zamelen voor onze lokale medewerkers. Zij zetten zich in voor een project dat door Milieukontakt is opgezet of wordt [...]
Read Full PostTauw Consortium Publishes Interim Reports of Central Asian Technical Study on Obsolete Pesticides
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 [...]
Read Full PostUkrainan Obsolete Pesticides: A timebomb for Ukraine and Moldova
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 [...]
Read Full PostObsolete Pesticides-a “Burning” Question
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 [...]
Read Full PostTauw, Witteveen & Bos, International HCH & Pesticides Association and Milieukontakt write a technical study on the problems of obsolete pesticides for Tajikistan
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 [...]
Read Full PostVolkskrant 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 to repackage obsolete pesticides in Kyrgyzstan
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 [...]
Read Full PostMilieukontakt 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 [...]
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