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Persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

Information relating to persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Environment Agency
• Published: 7 August 2024
• Last updated: 28 October 2024 — See all updates

Brings together information relating to persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

POPs are substances that persist in the environment, accumulate in living organisms, and pose a risk to our health and the environment.

POPs policy information

• Persistent organic pollutants (POPs): policy information
  • 7 August 2024
  • Policy paper

POPs guidance

• Identify and classify waste containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
  • 19 December 2022
  • Guidance
• Using persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
  • 12 January 2024
  • Guidance
• Manage waste containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
  • 19 December 2022
  • Guidance
• Storing persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
  • 27 March 2015
  • Guidance

Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)

• Classify some waste electrical devices and components, and wastes from their treatment
  • 25 September 2024
  • Guidance
• Reusing waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and components removed from WEEE
  • 19 December 2022
  • Guidance
• When electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) becomes waste (WEEE)
  • 25 September 2024
  • Guidance

Domestic seating

• Manage waste upholstered domestic seating containing POPs
  • 26 April 2024
  • Guidance
• Reusing upholstered domestic seating containing POPs
  • 26 April 2024
  • Guidance
• Monitoring fugitive emissions from shredding waste upholstered domestic seating: RPS 297
  • 9 May 2024
  • Guidance
• Temporary storage of waste upholstered domestic seating containing POPs: RPS 265
  • 19 December 2022
  • Guidance
• Segregating waste upholstered domestic seating that may contain POPs at HWRCs: RPS 266
  • 29 August 2023
  • Guidance
• Shredding waste upholstered domestic seating containing POPs: RPS 264
  • 19 December 2022
  • Guidance

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)

• Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs): registration, disposal, labelling
  • 19 December 2022
  • Guidance
• Transformers containing PCBs: new rules - RPS 246
  • 20 May 2021
  • Guidance

Perfluorooctane sulfonates (PFOS)

• Perfluorooctane sulfonates (PFOS) and related compounds
  • 27 March 2015
  • Guidance

Consultations

• Request for information on substances proposed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) 2024
  • 28 October 2024
  • Impact assessment
• Amendments to the persistent organic pollutants (POPs) regulation
  • 4 April 2024
  • Consultation outcome
• Draft evaluations of 3 chemical substances proposed as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): call for comments
  • 15 August 2023
  • Consultation outcome
• Persistent organic pollutants: draft Stockholm Convention UK implementation plan 2021
  • 23 June 2022
  • Consultation outcome

POPs closed requests for information

• Call for comments: draft risk management evaluation of a substance proposed as a persistent organic pollutant (POP) 2024
  • 20 May 2024
  • Policy paper
• Request for information on substances proposed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) 2023
  • 4 January 2024
  • Policy paper
• Draft evaluations of substances proposed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
  • 23 April 2021
  • Policy paper
• Request for information about risk management evaluations of substances proposed as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
  • 28 February 2023
  • Impact assessment
• Review of statutory exemptions for permitted uses of persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
  • 18 July 2022
  • Impact assessment

Published 7 August 2024
Last updated 28 October 2024 + show all updates

1. 28 October 2024

   A request for information to feed into a draft Risk Profile, and draft Risk Management Evaluation for 2 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP Review Committee, has been added.

2. 25 September 2024

   Added link to a guide on 'When electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) becomes waste (WEEE)'.

3. 7 August 2024

   First published.