Alternatives to POPs When cleaner production(CP) implementation
strategies are developed, investment for the identified CP
opportunites are subdivided into three priorities: - good house
keeping options where no investment is required for
implementation, - short term investment options with payback
period between 6 months and one year, and - long term investment
options that require terchnology transfer for compliance. Input
material changes and material alternatives are very seldom
considered as a CP option if there are no grurantees that the
consumer, without market resistance, would accept the final
product. Article 11 of the Stockholm Convention encourages
research for alternatives to POPs chemicals and set a time limit
for compliance due to the proven severe adverse effect on human
health and the environment. Although there are some constraints
to adoption of alternative materials and technologies,
alternatives constitute an opportunity to CP actions and
resource mobilization for science based POPs elimi