15. McMurdo Station, Winter Quarters Bay, - ANTARCTICA

The Winter Quarters Bay landfill was used between 1956 and 1980 for depositing waste and debris from McMurdo Station. The landfill has leaked a wide variety of organic and inorganic contaminants, including fuel-related volatile organic compounds (VOCs), semi-volatile organic compounds, tetrachloroethene, petroleum hydrocarbons (including diesel, heavy oil, and kerosene), PCBs, and metals including elevated concentrations of Cd, Cr, Pb and Zn.

Source categories of waste contamination by POPs:

  Landfilling/dumping/open burning of wastes

Data about POPs levels in different environment compartments:

  Waste residue

POPs - Persistent Organic Pollutants:

  Polychlorinated Biphenyls