Guide to Environmental theme of Toxic and hazardous substances
'Toxic and hazardous substances' is an umbrella term for the contamination of soil, water, and air with toxic substances that are not included in the other themes. The Toxic and hazardous substances theme includes:
- chemical substances, including the priority substances such as heavy metals, PAHs, PCBs, dioxins and volatile organic compounds;
- pesticides;
- radioactive substances;
- radiation;
- micro-organisms.
Index Toxic and hazardous substances
- Environmental pressure, Environmental pressure in the Netherlands, Toxic and hazardous substances theme: introduction and policy
Priority substances
Pesticides
- Emissions of pesticides in the Netherlands, 1984-2000
- Run-off and drainage of pesticides in the Netherlands, 2000
- Sales of pesticides for agricultural use in the Netherlands, 1985-2002
- Agricultural use of chemical pesticides on some crops in the Netherlands, 1995-2000*
- Volume developments in Agriculture and horticulture in the Netherlands, 1980-2001
- Use of pesticides by the Dutch government, 1986-2001
- Pesticides in brackish and marine surface water in the Netherlands, 1997-2001
- Pesticides in the soil in the Netherlands
- Pesticides in drinking water in the Netherlands, 1993-2001
- Pesticides: impact on the goshawk (page is not available yet)
- Pesticides: impact on the sandwich tern (page is not available yet)
- Endocrine disruptors: impact on the environment (page is not available yet)
- Tributyltin and the development of the murex and whelk (page is not available yet)
Radioactive substances
- Radioactive substances, emissions by Dutch nuclear power plants, 1975-2001
- Radioactive substances: emissions into ambient air and water by the processing industry in the Netherlands, 1994-2000
- Guide to 'Radiation' section
