9. Santiago del Estero, Argentina - LATIN AMERICA

This is a dump containing banned/obsolete pesticides and related wastes where it has not been possible to identify the responsible companies. The dump has no enclosure and is only 150 m from a school in one of the poorest provinces of Argentina. UNEP comment “official numbers grossly underestimate the real situation due to illegal or non-reported contaminated sites throughout the Region”. This is typical of many countries around the world.

Source categories of waste contamination by POPs:

  Pesticides production/storage
  Landfilling/dumping/open burning of wastes

POPs - Persistent Organic Pollutants:

  Hexachlorobenzene
  DDT – Dichlordiphenyltrichlorethan (pesticide)
  Other OCPs – Other Organochlorine Pesticides