Work is progressing in EU Council bodies on the Commission’s October 2021 proposal to tighten concentration limits for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in waste to protect the environment and human health.
The update of concentration limits for these highly toxic chemicals would be done by amending Annexes IV and V of the EU POPs Regulation 2019/102, which transposes the Stockholm Convention and the Protocol to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (see EUROPE...