As POPs (Persistent Organic Pollutants) pose a huge threaten to human health and environment, The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants had possed by 127 countries, with an aim of the convention to reducing and eventually eliminating such chemicals throughout the global community,and to boost public health, contributing to sustainable development and delivering wider Green Economy gains.
The convention provided that the contracting party should take necessary laws and administrative measures to prohibit and eliminate the intentional manufacture and use of POPs with strict control on its import in order to promote the best practical technology and application of best environmental practices, to reduce and eventually eliminate POPs with unintentional release, to identify and disposal of POPs stockpiles and the waste with the safe, effective and environmentally harmless ways.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) indicates that The amendments of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants has entered into force on Aug 26, which added 9 POPs posing a risk to health of human and animals and the environment to the restricted and prohibited chemical list and now the list has been totaled to 21 in the convention.
The nine chemicals banned or being phased out under the new amendments are still widely used today as pesticides, flame retardants and in a number of other commercial uses. Since they can be easily intake to the organs of humans and animals, not easily being broken down and can move to the next generation and show the characteristics after later years, they are considered to be bio-accumulative toxic chemicals.
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