08/07/2019 (Agence Europe) – Ten years after its launch, the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) has proven to be a highly effective online tool, according to an assessment published on Monday 8 July by the European Environment Agency. Used to assess industrial pollution trends and to evaluate the effectiveness of EU anti-pollution legislation, it has facilitated public access to information, notes the EEA. It contains more than 10 years of data, covering more than 34,000 installations in the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Serbia. They indicate, for each facility and year, information concerning the amounts of pollutants released to air, water and land as well as off-site transfers of waste and of pollutants in wastewater. Data includes releases and transfers of 91 individual pollutants, like mercury, particulate matter and sulphur oxides, across 65 industrial activities. (AN)