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THE company at the centre of Western Australia's lead pollution disaster has written off the entire value of a multi-million-dollar lead stockpile, as workers begin erasing the last visible sign of the scandal, which killed thousands of native birds.
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Bird killing pesticide still used in Australia

NGOs are calling on the Australian pesticide regulator, the APVMA, to immediately remove from sale and use a highly toxic agricultural pesticide facing bans in Canada and the USA because it is killing up to 100 million birds a year in North America and also posing a serious risk to people’s health. Carbofuran is a highly toxic carbamate pesticide used in Australia on rice, sugarcane, tobacco, wheat and barley.

STOP PRESS: Kenyan Government bans carbofuran after it was found to be killing wildlife including 76 lions and thousands of birds.

NGOs called for urgent action on toxic chemicals at UN Conference

Public interest NGOs welcomed the limited advances made at the 2nd International Conference on Chemicals Management but the lack of concrete financial support from the chemical industry and wavering political commitment saw many urgent chemical safety issues simply ignored. While the NGO proposal to eliminate lead in paint globally was agreed on, the responses to other urgent issues such as e-waste, the impacts of nanomaterials and the need for better information on chemicals in products were inadequate.

Toxic chemicals in your living room

Over 100 Government delegates meeting in Geneva, have agreed to add 9 new chemicals to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). Listing is an acknowledgement that these chemicals are so toxic, persistent and bioaccumaulative that an international ban on their production, use and export is needed. Under pressure from powerful countries, 3 of these chemicals were given exemptions; one for continued use in a wide range of products including clothes and for the other two, an exemption to allow them to be recycled back into new products.