Hello colleagues! Hope your Monday is off to a great start!

We trust you had time to explore Sectoral Guidance for Inventories of POPs and other Chemicals of Concern by Dr.Roland Weber available on the Global NIP Update Project Initiative page.

New industrial POPs are present in polymers and wood in buildings and construction, in plastics in electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), vehicles, textiles, and a range of other consumer goods. These uses result in human exposure indoor, environmental releases and food chain contamination, and the generation of POP-contaminated waste and recycling cycles in particular for plastics.

This guidance steps away from the chemical-by-chemical approach and brings a more systematized sectoral overview of chemicals present in the construction, electronics, and transport sectors.