28. Dandenong, Australia - AUSTRALIA

Prior to 1995, the Dandenong South Treatment Complex accepted a range of waste streams such as trade waste taken waste from industrial sites and domestic wastes which were treated via biofiltration and land filtration prior to discharge to Dandenong Creek.

Source categories of waste contamination by POPs:

  Waste Incineration
  Pesticides production/storage
  Landfilling/dumping/open burning of wastes
  Chemical industry
  Metallurgical industry

Data about POPs levels in different environment compartments:

  Air
  Soil/sediment
  Waste residue
  Food (milk, eggs)
  Wildlife (fish)
  Human tissues (breast milk, blood)
  Water

POPs - Persistent Organic Pollutants:

  Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (dioxins)
  Polychlorinated Biphenyls
  Hexachlorobenzene
  DDT – Dichlordiphenyltrichlorethan (pesticide)
  Other OCPs – Other Organochlorine Pesticides