Useful materials

In Lviv region 145 storehouses contain about 800 tons of unsuitable for usage pesticides. This poisonous heritage consists of prohibited and unsuitable for usage pesticides which are still lying about in abandoned storehouses in places where our children play and grains for our bread grow. In order to learn when, how and for what money…

In the United State there was published a report which admitted the existence of ‘Iraqi syndrome” – various ailments from which suffered veterans of the first war in Iraq. Among about 700 thousand of American participants of the 1991 war in Iraq, every fourth suffered from disorders of immune system, problems with memory, chronic fatigue…

The XX century gave the mankind many strict lessons and one of them is understanding the fact that not always a man acts wisely for his own benefit. Alongside with bloodshed wars, crazy arms race, human imprudence obviously revealed itself in large-scale usage of not enough tested substances which at some moment seemed convenient and…

Every year on December 3 International day of fighting with pesticides is marked – this is the day when in 1984 there was a catastrophe on pesticides plant in Bhopal (India) as a result of which about 200 people died. On this day environmentalists of the whole world hold certain actions and protests reminding about…

Socialist planned economy introduced the principle of centralized distribution on all levels of activity. According to this principle, there were distributed, for example, seed grains, fertilizers and substances for plant protection in agriculture. Not all substances acquired for this purpose were used in good time and therefore they became stale, and their stores were increasing…

The word “pesticide” itself to great extend outlines the problems related to it. The root “cide” which comes from Latin “kill” directly expresses the purpose of these substances – killing, destroying living creatures, war with nature. The root “pest” now in many world languages means “vermin”, and implies that man divides all creatures into useful…

Within the project “Utilization of unsuitable and prohibited pesticides” 100 tons of pesticides have been taken to Hamburg in Germany. Removal of these toxic chemicals lasted from November 27 till December 1. Therefore, on December 3, when the whole world is celebrating the International day of combating pesticides, Lviv oblast really have something to celebrate….

The rivers Syan and Western Buh,within the water intake basins of which the works of wastes utilization will be done, are right tributaries of the Wisla. The Wisla is the longest river of the basin of the Baltic sea and Poland. It is formed in the result of merging of the Black and the White…

According to the Article 1of the Law of Ukraine “On wastes” – wastes are any substances, materials and objects which are formed in the process of human activity and cannot be further used in the places where they were formed or revealed. Their owners have to get rid of them through utilization or removal; hazardous…

Dani Cooper Household pesticides may cause some of the intellectual development problems in children previously associated with lead, an Australian toxicologist says. In a commentary available online in the journal Science of the Total Environment, Professor Brian Gulson says there is no question lead has a detrimental effect on children’s intellectual development. But the Macquarie…