‘Clean-up’ the World

Our common goal is to free the world of obsolete pesticides.

But we cannot do this alone. We have teamed up with Milieukontakt International, Tauw and The Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment and have now executed three pilot projects in Moldova, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan on awareness and inventory, clean up and repackaging.

So the start has been made to clean up the world but it is a long way to go.

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How big is the problem?

It is very difficult to estimate to assess the real extent of the obsolete pesticides problem, as only a limited number of field investigations have been made globally, but the best preliminary guess gives the over 300 000 tonnes all over the world.

An Overview of estimated amounts of Obsolete Pesticides in countries of Eastern and Central Europe, the former Soviet Union and Central Asia gives the map on the right.

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• Awareness process of all stakeholders
• Public participation
• Training on the solution of obsolete pesticides
• Good technical information

• Create partnerships
• Control of all works
• Contribute to sustainable agriculture

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