IPEN is pleased to announce a new guide to mercury pollution and the Minamata Convention on Mercury. Download the booklet here.
This booklet provides information about the toxic environmental pollutant mercury and its harm to human health and the environment, as well as the recently adopted Minamata Convention on Mercury.
It encourages and enables global civil society organizations (CSOs) to engage in local, national and international activities aimed at controlling mercury pollution.
This booklet provides information about the toxic environmental pollutant mercury and its harm to human health and the environment, as well as the recently adopted Minamata Convention on Mercury.
It encourages and enables global civil society organizations to engage in local, national and international activities aimed at controlling mercury pollution.
IPEN has signed on to a letter urging U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to propose an effluent guideline for dental amalgam to reduce mercury pollution. Read the letter below:
IPEN Participating Organization Environment and Social Development Organization (ESDO) were featured in a release from the official news Agency of Bangladesh (BSS):
Dental experts demand banning metal amalgam
2014-01-27
Dental experts today demanded phasing out dental amalgam and urged the government to ratify the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
CISITU, Indonesia — In the remote mountains of West Java, workers like 15-year-old David Mario Chandra are an integral part of Indonesia’s gold industry.
