POPs stockpiles management and destruction in Moldova
2008
Plesca, V.
Since 2006 the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources has been implementing in Moldova the Persistent Organic Pollutants Stockpiles Management and destruction Project financed by the Global Environmental Facility through the World Bank. This project is succeeding the Enabling Activities for the Implementation of the Stockholm Convention in the Republic of Moldova Project, carried out in 2002-2004 and aimed at developing the National Plan for the Implementation of the Stockholm Convention. The general objective of the project is to protect the environment and human health by safety managing and disposing of stockpiles of obsolete pesticides from agriculture, containing or contaminated with Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and the equipment from energy sector contaminated with Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs). The project envisages shipment and destruction abroad of about 1150 tons of obsolete pesticides out of the 3000 tons in the warehouses and about 1060 tons of power capacitors containing PCBs. The project goal is to strengthen also the regulatory and institutional framework for long term control of POPs and other toxic substances in line with the requirements of the Stockholm Convention and other related conventions and protocols ratified by Moldova. The project activities are complemented by the activities of Canada POP Fund financed project, NATO financed project,"Energy II" GEF financed project,"Milieukontakt-Internationa" project financed by Dutch government.
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