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A Large Store Where Vast Quantities of DDT Powder Has Been Kept with No DDT and a cocktail of veterinary waste The Veterinary centre being excavated from after having been unapproved burial site cleaned up and the within the compound open burial site of the National leveled off. Veterinary Research laboratory in Mazabuka. 1111 1010 A large store where vast quantities of DDT powder has been kept with no security and Repackaged waste being finally after the mess put in shipping containers: has been cleaned up. A train loaded with a total PRIOR of 25 shipping containers each 20-foot snaking out 12 HOME NEXT 12 of Zambia and heading to the port in Tanzania for transshipment to a destination overseas for incineration. 1313 H. E. Mr. William J. Harrington, the Minister of the Environment A group of local and Natural Resources expressing technical staff who his satisfaction and appreciation participated in the for the clean up and freeing repacking of the waste. Zambia of the threat of obsolete pesticides: Putting his message on record to the Diretor-General 1414 of FAO. 1515 Government, FAO and A consignment of UN representatives of approved containers supporting countries imported with pallets visiting the disposal for repacking the waste. operation site and the repackaged waste. 66 77 Packaged waste in pallet boxes, various drums and bulk pack carton boxes containing crushed drums. 88 PRIOR HOME NEXT DDT and a cocktail of veterinary waste A clean site at being excavated from Zambia Cooperative unapproved burial site Federation (ZCF) in within the compound Lusaka city centre. of the National Veterinary Research 99 laboratory in Mazabuka. 1010 Obsolete pesticides continue to pose major environmental and health PRIOR HOME problems in developing countries NEXT The country-free approach: Pesticides kept in the Zambia open within the city Pesticide disposal sites Zambia is now rid of obsolete pesticides centre of Lusaka with and the government has vowed not to little or no security. Nchanga Kitwe Ndola accumulate any again. The successful Subject to wind, rain Luanshya Mpongwe disposal operation was completed in and erosion, emitting Luska surface run off for Mazabuka April 1997, with the support of the several years. Pesticides removed (tonnes) Lusaka (ZCF) 303.388 Governments of the Netherlands and Financing sources Mazabuka (Vet. centre) 35.062 Netherlands GCP/INT/572/NET Ndola (IRLOCSA) 18.436 FAO TCP/ZAM/4556 Kitwe/Nchanga Farms 1.054 Germany GCP/ZAM/053/GER/GTZ Mpongwe/Luanshya 2.335 Germany (GTZ), FAO’s Technical Total 360.275 Cooperative Programme (TCP) and 11 the Government of Zambia. A close-up of the pesticides and waste The operation as being witnessed is recorded by the representative for history. of the Embassy of the Netherlands. 44 2 2 Disposal operation in progress inside secured fence set up for the task: The Director of GTZ Nearly 1 000 empty Zambia observing the contaminated drums operation. lined up to be crushed. 33 55.
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