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T1 Management of Mercury and Mercury containing Wastes in Pakistan
A1 Environ Monitor, 
A1 Global Mercury Partnership, 
A2 Hussain, Mumtaz
K1 mercury
K1 waste management
YR 2009
FD 2009
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/13020
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/13020
NO This document outlines the behavior of mercury across environmental media, identifies major anthropogenic sources, and frames implications for waste management. It explains mercury’s persistence, mobility, and bioaccumulation; its retention in organs; gaseous and particulate forms in air; and conversion to methylmercury in water. It catalogs source categories: fossil-fuel extraction and combustion; primary metal production; cement, pulp and paper, and lime manufacturing; mercury-based industrial catalysts; and consumer and professional products, including lamps, switches, thermometers, batteries, biocides, paints, pharmaceuticals, dental amalgams, gauges, laboratory uses, and ritual applications. It situates these issues within Pakistan’s context and foreshadows practical management approaches and recommendations.
NO https://www.unep.org/chemicalsandwaste/Portals/9/Mercury/Waste%20management/docs/Annex-XIV.pdf
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026