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Page last updated : 15/05/2008

Polychlorobiphenyls - PCBs

Source : CITEPA / CORALIE SECTEN format - last updated 28 February 2008

Survey period : since 1990

Emissions Variations
Emissions in 2006 : 26 kg Variation 2006 / 1990 : -38 %
Maximum observed : 46 kg in 1991 Variation 2006 / maximum : -43 %
Minimum observed : 26 kg in 2006 Variation 2006 / minimum : 0 %

Main emitters in 2006 (top 5 of total emissions) :
  1 - Residential 59 %
2 - Waste treatment 12 %
3 - Chemical industry 5.0 %
4 - Paper, cardboard 4.5 %
5 - Electricity production 3.8 %

Comments

Total air emissions of Polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) amounted to approximately 26 kg in 2006.

A fall of the emissions is observed during the period 1990-2006 (around -37%, i.e. -15.6 kg). On the whole, this decrease is observed in all the emitting sectors.

Among all the sectors, three sources mainly emitted PCBs, others represented very low emissions or even none. These sectors are by importance order :

  • residential/tertiary : 61%,
  • manufacturing industry : 28%,
  • energy conversion : 9%.

PCB emissions from residential/tertiary are mostly attributed to “residential” (around 98% of the emissions of the sector). Emissions vary according to the years.

They are directly linked to energy consumption.

Regarding manufacturing industry and energy conversion, emissions have been reduced respectively by 74% and by 48% between 1990 and 2006 thanks to :

  • the diminution of the emissions in hospital waste incineration sector due to less quantities incinerated and,
  • the reduction of incinerator emissions for household and municipal waste, linked to, in one hand, the development of incinerators with energy recovery (included in the “energy conversion” sector) and, in the other hand, to improvements realised in a result of treatments of atmospheric effluents.


 

  
 
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