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  Hazardous Waste and Toxic Substances

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International Conventions

• Secretariat of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal

 

• Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import Into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes Within Africa

 

• Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction

 

• Convention on Civil Liability for Damage Resulting from Activities Dangerous to the Environment (EU)

International Documents

• Agenda 21 on Hazardous Waste and Toxic Chemicals Management

Right to Know

• Draft Elements for the Convention on Access to Environmental Information and Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making (EU)

 

• UNEP Information Clearing House on Polutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR)

 

• OECD document on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTR) (1,2 MB, pdf file)

 
 
• Australia
• National Pollutant Inventory (NPI)
• Information on Right to Know in Australia
• Austria
• Environmental Information Act
• Österreichische Umweltregister (Austrian Environment Registers)
• Canada
• National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI)
• Community Right to Know - discussion paper (93k)
• United Kingdom
• Chemical Release Inventory and Righ to Know
• United States of America
• Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
• Federal Register - Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
• Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)
• RTK NET - the Right-to-Know Electronic Network

Research and Information Centres

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)

 

• The Center for Biomedical and Toxicological Research and Hazardous Waste Management of the Florida State University's Institute of Science and Public Affairs (ISPA)

 

• Center for the Study of Environmental Endocrine Effects

 

• The Cornell Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology (ICET)

 

• Environmental Information Center provides information on hormone disrupting chemicals.
• EXTOXNET - EXtension TOXicology NETwork

 

• Global Information Network on Chemicals (GINC) has very good directory of net sites for chemical safety information, plus excellent section on substances which are being phased out in Sweden. [down! as of 26.03.97]

 

• Hazardous Substance Research Centers in the US

 

• Institute of Hygiene, Social and Environmental Medicine of the Ruhr University Bochum, Gemany

 

• International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (ILO-CIS)

 

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institute of Agriculture & Natural Resources' (IANR) Pesticide Education Resources and an excellent directory of links to other pesticide related information sources.

 

• US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Toxicology Program (NTP) publishes journal on Environmental Health Perspectives

Environmental Organisations

• Citizen's Clearinghouse for Hazardous Waste maintains dioxin mailing list: dioxin-l.

 

• Citizens Opposed to PCB Ash - has very good set of information on PCBs.

 

• Communities Against Toxics (CATs) fights against waste incineration, toxic waste facilities and dumpsites.

 

• Environmental Research Foundation is the publisher of Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly

 

• Friends of the Earth (UK) provides information on right to know and toxics issues in the UK.

 

• Greenpeace's Toxics Campaign and Hormone Disrupting Chemical pages

 

• Pesticide Action Network North America - one of the best source of information on problems caused by pesticides and alternatives to them.

 

• Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition works on hazards caused by the electronics industry.

 

• The Toxics Watch Society, Canada

 

• Washington Toxics Coalition

 

• World Wildlife Fund Canada has section on hormone disruptor substances.

 

Databases, Documents, Fact Sheets

• UNEP's International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals (IRPTC)

 

• UNEP's Information Clearing House on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

 

• Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
• Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database (HazDat)
• Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets (ToxFAQs)
• Chemical Exposure Guidelines

 

• Chemicals In Your Environment is a set of databases and official documents gathered by MedAccess Corporation.

 

• The European Communities' Environmental Chemicals Data and Information Network (ECDIN)

 

• Hazardous Chemical Database contains over 2000 records.

 

• Information on sources and effects of hazardous air pollutants

 

• International Congress on Hazardous Waste - conference proceedings: 1993, 1995

 

• Legal Summary on Dioxins: Recent Scientific Evidence Developed after 1984 Supporting a Causal Relationship between Dioxin and Human Health Effects (378 kb)

 

• Non-toxic alternatives to commonly used household chemicals prepared by Greenpeace.

 

• Oestrogenic Toxicity Web Pages

 

• Pesticide Poisoning Handbook from the Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval System (FAIRS)

 

• Pesticide Properties Database from the Systems Research Laboratory of the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.

 

• United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)
• 8(e) Triage Chemical Studies Database
• A Second Look at Dioxin - the US EPA Science Advisory Board's review of the Draft Dioxin Exposure and Health Effects Reassessment Documents (pdf file, 330 kb)
• Health Assessment for 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin and Related Compounds
• Estimating Exposure to Dioxin-Like Compounds
• Health Effects Notebook for Hazardous Air Pollutants
• Restricted Use Products (pesticides)
• Toxic Substances Chemical Fact Sheets

Hazardous Waste Treatment Technologies

• Information on Alternatives to Incineration from the US National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

 

• Alternative Treatment Technology Information Center (ATTIC) BBS

 

• Appropriate Technologies for the Destruction of Stockpiles of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Related Materials by Pat Costner, Greenpeace.

 

• Appropriate Technologies for the Treatment of Scheduled Wastes evaluated by the Australia Environment Protection Agency

(Eco Logic, Molten Media Processes, Supercritical Water Oxidation and others).

 

• Description of bioremediation process, and documents of the US EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD)

 

• Cleanup Information Bulletin Board System (CLU-IN) offers access to documents and databases on innovative hazardous waste treatment technologies, i.e.:
• Bioremediation in the Field Search System (BFSS), Version 2.0 (865k) - information and previous version.
• Innovative Treatment Technologies (ITT) (2 MB!)
• Vendor Information System for Innovative Treatment Technologies (VISITT), Version 5.0 (2.1 MB!) - home page.
• Eco Logic Technology

 

• Mediated Electrochemical Oxidation, another description.

 

• Medical Waste Management and Treatment Methods - good factsheet, and an example of autoclave vendor site.

 

• Molten Metal Technology

 

• Report of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Destruction of Military Toxic Waste

 

• Report on Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Weapons (120k)

 

• Supercritical Water Oxidation Central Resource Page of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 

• The U.S. Army's programme on alternative hazardous waste treatment and destruction technologies.