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Exposure Commitment Assessments of Environmental Pollutants Volume 1, Number 2: Summary Exposure Assessments for Mercury, Nickel, Tin – MARC Report Number 25
(1981)
In this report, mercury, nickel and tin are considered. Representative background levels of these pollutants in air, soil, water and diet due to natural and man-made sources are indicated. The intake rates by man are ...
Mercury - Environmental Health Criteria 1
(1976)
As stated on page 5, the purpose of the criteria documents is to compile, review, and evaluate available information on the biological effects of pollutants and other environmental factors that may influence man's health, ...
Storing and Disposing Excess Mercury in Central America: Advancing National Initiatives in Mexico and Panama
(2014)
In order to provide a better understanding of mercury storage and disposal issues at country level and to promote the environmentally sound management of excess mercury, Argentina and Uruguay were selected for the “Mercury ...
Storage and Disposal of Mercury in Mexico: Project for the Latin American and Caribbean Region Mexico - Panama
(2013)
This report presents in the first place, a description of the regulatory framework at the international level in relation to mercury and mercury waste. It also underscores the broad participation of Mexico in the international ...
Procedures and Methods for Integrated Global Background Monitoring of Environmental Pollution
(1987)
The aim of the present paper is to formulate the basic principles of integrated background monitoring, and to describe procedures and methods of integrated background monitoring with respect to observation of background ...
Report of the Mid-term Expert Consultation on the Joint FAO(GFCM)/UNEP coordinated Project on Pollution in the Mediterranean
(1977)
This meeting identified a series of seven pilot projects and GFCM agreed to coordinate the implementation of four of them. The programme as drawn up during the meeting has been endorsed at the beginning of 1975 as part of ...
Reducing Mercury Emissions from Coal Combustion in the Energy Sector
(2011)
This study conducted literature review on the mercury and chlorine content of coal in China, analyzed the fate of mercury in coal-fired power plants, evaluated the mercury removal efficiencies of PM, SO2 and NOx control ...
Squeezing Gold from a Stone: How to Reduce Toxic Health Risks and Pollution Caused by Mercury Use in the Small-Scale & Artisanal Gold Mining Sector
(2009)
Low-cost technologies available now have the potential to reduce dramatically mercury pollution in the small-scale and artisanal mining sector. By supporting miners with knowledge and resources to adopt these new technologies ...
Our Common Seas: Coasts in Crisis
(1990)
Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the effects are being felt. There is not a coast in the ...