LINDANET

LINDANET is an ambitious project that aims to join efforts among European regions to work together towards the improvement of the HCH (Lindane) contaminated sites. Lindane was a pesticide widely produced during second half of the 20th century around Europe and the world. Lindane production generated huge amounts of high pollutant organochlorinated compounds (HCH isomers and others) which present high persistence, high toxicity, and carcinogenic, bioaccumulative and endocrine disrupting properties. For example, several isomers of HCH are included in the list of the Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) of the Stockholm Convention. Lindane production and use has been prohibited in EU regulation from 2007, but the Lindane related pollution still represents a very important risk for the human health and european environment and is still a quite unknown problem by the population and the political representatives. So, the intention of the LINDANET project is to advance in the direction of improve the knowledge and solution of this problem, starting from a regional point of view and reaching a European level. For this, the project has set the following general objectives: • To create a network of European regions affected by the contamination derived from the lindane production wastes (HCH and others), • To establish an Action Plan focused to the problem solution in each region, • To interchange experiences and knowledge that contribute to the solution of the contamination derived from the lindane and lindane production wastes, • To involve the stakeholder groups in the knowledge and the solution to the problem, • To contribute to the Policy Learning Platform of the Interreg Europe programme, • To raise public awareness about the HCH pollution and other related contamination problems derived from POPs and Obsolete Pesticides.