Metals

Metals: A Getting Started Guide

Despite decades of international action, exposure globally to toxic metals is pervasive and persists at crisis levels, and businesses have a crucial role to play in protecting people and nature from metal pollutants.

Anchored in research, our Metals: A Getting Started Guide aims to support your company as it develops a strategy to eliminate metal pollutants from their own operations and in their value chains.

Protocol on Heavy Metals

The 1998 Aarhus Protocol on Heavy Metals provides strict limits on cadmium, lead, and mercury emissions. It outlines best available techniques for reducing such emissions from industrial sources, combustion processes, and waste incineration, and also introduces measures to reduce and manage heavy metal emissions from products such as batteries, measuring devices, pesticides, and paint.

Heavy Metals Toxicity and the Environment

This resource is a helpful primer on arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, and mercury - five priority metals of public health significance. For each metal it explains environmental occurrence, industrial production and use, the potential for human exposure, and mechanisms of toxicity and carcinogenicity.