Development and Promotion of Non-POPs Alternatives to DDT
Toxics Link is an Indian environmental research and advocacy organization set up in 1996, engaged in disseminating information to help strengthen the campaign against toxics pollution, and to provide cleaner alternatives. Toxics Link work with other groups around the country as well as internationally in an understanding that this will help bring the experience of the ground to the fore, and lead to a more meaningful articulation of issues. Toxics Link engages in the emerging issues of highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs), Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), hazardous heavy metal contamination, pharmaceutical pollutants, etc. from the environment and public health point of view. Toxics Link also work on the ground in areas of municipal, hazardous, and medical waste management, and food safety among others. Toxics Link has successfully implemented various best practices and has brought in policy changes in the aforementioned areas apart from creating awareness among several stakeholder groups.
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