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Environmental Emissions of Selected Persistent Organic Pollutants

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Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are chemicals that are recognized as persistent, bio-accumulative, toxic and susceptible to long-range atmospheric transport (PBT-LRT). POPs generally fall into two classes dependent on their origin; intentionally produced chemicals (typically organo-chlorinated pesticides and industrial chemicals, such as hexachlorobenzene – HCB) and unwanted by-products of combustion (such as, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – PAHs, and dioxins – PCDD/Fs).

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Information presented in this work has been collected within the EU Project SOCOPSE on Source Control of Priority Substances in Europe (www.socopse.se). The author expresses his gratitude for the financial support from the EU to the SOCOPSE project. A part of PAH analysis is based on the contribution of Mr. Janusz Krupanek of the Institute for Ecology of Industrial Areas (IETU) in Katowice, Poland to the SOCOPSE project.

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  1. Center for Ecological Economics, Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU), Instituttveien 18, 100, Kjeller, N-2027, Norway

    Jozef Pacyna

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Pacyna, J. (2011). Environmental Emissions of Selected Persistent Organic Pollutants. In: Quante, M., Ebinghaus, R., Flöser, G. (eds) Persistent Pollution – Past, Present and Future. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17419-3_4

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