IPEN has signed on to a letter urging U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to propose an effluent guideline for dental amalgam to reduce mercury pollution. Read the letter below:
IPEN Participating Organization Environment and Social Development Organization (ESDO) were featured in a release from the official news Agency of Bangladesh (BSS):
Dental experts demand banning metal amalgam
2014-01-27
Dental experts today demanded phasing out dental amalgam and urged the government to ratify the Minamata Convention on Mercury.
CISITU, Indonesia — In the remote mountains of West Java, workers like 15-year-old David Mario Chandra are an integral part of Indonesia’s gold industry.
The Center for Public Health and Environmental Development (CEPHED) has launched an initiative to develop an environmentally sound health care waste management system and mercury-free health care services model under their ongoing "Public Awareness and Capacity Building for Elimination of POPs and its Sources from Nepal" program.
