Disposal of POPs pesticides - Available options for Central Asia and the potential role of co-processing
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Pesticides based on a group of chemicals called Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) have been in wide use in the Former Soviet Union (FSU) area from industrialisation of POPs in the late 1940s until the mid-1980s. DDT and other POPs pesticides were being used on a massive scale across the FSU, be it for cotton and wheat farming or forestry. The planning economy lead to widespread accumulation of pesticides wastes, which were buried in engineered landfills or sometimes in simple burial pits. A conservative estimate is that there are today at least 180 000 - 264 000 MT of obsolete pesticides located in old warehouses, landfills, and dumps across the territory of the FSU as well as a growing volume of contaminated soils from unmanaged stocks. Countries in the FSU region partially lack the capacity as well as the infrastructure to manage these wastes in an environmentally sound manner. The GEF-funded and FAO-managed project “Lifecycle Management of Pesticides and Disposal of POPs Pesticides in Central Asian countries and Turkey”, therefore, facilitates solutions for some of the core issues. In this regard, introduction of disposal options for POPs pesticides is vital to address the issue in the region through the project. With this aim, a webinar was held on 24 June 2020. This presentation is about available options for Central Asia and the potential role of co-processing in disposal options of POPs pesticides. Since the subject of the webinar is technical, the target audience is decision makers and influencers to explain the disposal options for the sake of the impacted communities and the environment.