The Greenpeace report found, in all the countries studied, that citizens bear the environmental cost of POPs usage, manufacture or storage. Citizens are also likely to bear the cost of eventual disposal. Corporations, on the other hand, lack accountability in this area. Greenpeace investigators found obsolete pesticide stockpiles in Pakistan and Nepal containing chemicals from well-known chemical corporations like Hoechst, Bayer, Shell, ICI, Velsicol, Dow, Rhone Poulenc and DuPont. India, because of the sheer size of its manufacturing industry, should have been a major player in the international negotiations to eliminate POPs, Greenpeace said.
POPs affect reproductive systems.
In a recent study of beluga whales in the St. Lawrence Seaway, mammary gland lesions that could have hindered breast feeding were discovered in 36 percent of the dead females. They discussed how to minimize and eventually eliminate emissions and releases of persistent organic pollutants such as DDT and PCBs. A second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a legally binding treaty on POPs will be held January 25-29 in Nairobi, Kenya. Environmental activists in nearby Bangladesh and Nepal are concerned about Indian exports of POPs to their countries. Chemical diagram of DDT Unlike citizens in the U.S. and Denmark, citizens in Asia are deprived of the information about the hazardous activities in their areas.