Blog 11: China To Reduce Dioxin Pollution From Pulp And Paper Industr

The world bank has decided to give fifteen million dollars to the peoples republic of china from the global environment facility to help support the reduction in the toxins from the pulp and paper industry.
The persistent organic pollutants are a group of chemical substances  that come from industrial chemicals. the dioxins are just one type of the 21 persistent organic pollutants listed in the Stockholm convention on POPs. These chemicals are known to lead to serious health effects, including certain birth defects, and greater susceptibility to disease and even diminished intelligence in birth.
The world bank is sponsoring this project and hope it will focus on the best environmental practices in non wood mills which typify the  most commonly used fiber material in china, which would be straw and reed, and including bamboo and Bagasse.
based on the projects china will then develop a long term nation action plan to scale up the efforts and to further control the formation from both the wood and non wood pulp sectors.
Support will also be provided to strengthen the government’s capacity in monitoring and enforcement of a national dioxin standard issued recently.
I feel like this article is demonstrating the greatness that china is trying to get back on track with the environment. This may be the start of something better for china. If china can make sure this long term plan goes right I believe there is hope for there to be some change in other sectors of the environment as well.


http://www.asianscientist.com/topnews/world-bank-gef-grant-china-dioxin-pop-pollution-from-pulp-and-paper-industry-042012/