36. Klatovy-Luby, Czech Republic - EUROPE

This former pesticides storage site remains highly contaminated by lindane, DDT, triazine and other pesticides even more than 20 years after this use was stopped. Maximum levels of ÓDDT measured in 2008 were up to 5,381 mg/ kg in debris/plasterl and 70 mg/kg in soil. There are approximately 80 such “small” contaminated sites within the Czech Republic.

Source categories of waste contamination by POPs:

  Pesticides production/storage

Data about POPs levels in different environment compartments:

  Soil/sediment
  Food (milk, eggs)
  Wildlife (fish)
  Water

POPs - Persistent Organic Pollutants:
br />  DDT – Dichlordiphenyltrichlorethan (pesticide)
  Other OCPs – Other Organochlorine Pesticides