Public Health, Risk, Safety & Environment: Web resources - Pollution

A&WMA is a global network of environmental professionals. Its purpose is to improve environmental knowledge and decisions by providing a neutral forum for exchanging information.

The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal was adopted on 22 March 1989 in response to a public outcry following the discovery in Africa and other parts of the developing world of deposits of toxic wastes imported from abroad.

COMEAP is an expert Committee that provides advice to government departments and agencies, via the Department of Health's Chief Medical Officer, on all matters concerning the effects of air pollutants on health.

ENDS provides environmental and carbon intelligence to professionals in business, consultancy, government and public bodies.

The Environment Agency is an Executive Non-departmental Public Body responsible to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Its principal aims are to protect and improve the environment, and to promote sustainable development.

GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 800 grassroots groups, non-governmental organizations, and individuals in over 100 countries whose ultimate vision is a just, toxic-free world without incineration.

The Environmental Protection Department (EPD) was created in 1986 to co-ordinate and carry out pollution prevention and control activities.

The IWMI is a non-profit, scientific research organization focusing on the sustainable use of water and land resources in developing countries.

NRDC is an American environmental action group, combining the grassroots power of 1.4 million members and online activists with the courtroom clout and expertise of more than 350 lawyers, scientists and other professionals.

The noise maps on this site have been produced by Defra to meet the requirements of the Environmental Noise (England) Regulations 2006.

The ONS is the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and the recognised national statistical institute of the UK.

SAICM has as its overall objective the achievement of the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle so that, by 2020, chemicals are produced and used in ways that minimize significant adverse impacts on human health and the environment.

This American resource uses color, graphics, sounds and animation to add interest to learning about connections between chemicals, the environment, and the public's health.

TOXMAP is a Geographic Information System (GIS) from the Division of Specialized Information Services of the US National Library of Medicine that uses maps of the United States to help users visually explore data from the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Superfund Program.

Databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.

These are the UK-AIR (Air Information Resource) webpages providing in-depth information on air quality and air pollution in the UK.

In 1992, countries joined an international treaty, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, to cooperatively consider what they could do to limit average global temperature increases and the resulting climate change, and to cope with whatever impacts were, by then, inevitable.

The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment.

WasteDataFlow is the web based system for municipal waste data reporting by UK local authorities to government.

Working on behalf of the water industry towards a sustainable future