Additional Resources

The documents listed below are some selected references used in the Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Management of Wastes Consisting of, Containing or Contaminated with Persistent Organic Pollutants, which are not easily available in other sources/websites.

Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with hexabromocyclododecane:

Technical guidelines on hexabromodiphenyl ether and heptabromodiphenyl ether, or tetrabromodiphenyl ether and pentabromodiphenyl ether, or decabromodiphenyl ether, or Dechlorane Plus (to be considered for adoption by the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties)

Persistent organic pollutants in lead acid battery polymer casing (Water Research Limited, 2023)

Technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of wastes consisting of, containing or contaminated with the pesticides aldrin, alpha hexachlorocyclohexane, beta hexachlorocyclohexane, chlordane, chlordecone, dicofol, dieldrin, endrin, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, hexachlorobutadiene, lindane, methoxychlor, mirex, pentachlorobenzene, pentachlorophenol and its salts, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride, technical endosulfan and its related isomers or toxaphene or with hexachlorobenzene as an industrial chemical

EUROPOP final report (Chemical Legislation European Enforcement Network, 2012)

Updated versions of the abovementioned documents:

For more information on the Technical Guidelines of POP Wastes, please click here.