The chemical giant UPL has been tight-lipped about the contents of the warehouse torched during the July unrest, emitting a choking blanket of smoke over surrounding communities and poisoning an adjacent river and wetland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Yesterday amaBhungane revealed<\/span> much of the extremely toxic contents, piercing the persistent secrecy. Today we are making the full inventory of the warehouse available to readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A perusal of the inventory shows that UPL was storing large quantities of chemicals that are banned elsewhere in the world but not in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read <\/span><\/strong>\u2014 <\/span>Here it is: The toxic stockpile of chemicals in torched Durban warehouse<\/span><\/a> Among these products banned in the EU and elsewhere are:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 More than 40 000 litres of paraquat-based herbicides which have been banned in over 50 countries including the UK, China, Switzerland and Thailand;<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Roughly 150 000 litres of atrazine-based products and another 30 tonnes in dry form. Atrazine is banned in 31 countries including the EU;<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 36 000 litres of chlorpyrifos-based products which are banned in the US and EU;<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’re a non-profit newsroom that exposes wrongdoing, empowering people to hold power to account. But we cannot do it without <\/em>your support<\/a><\/u><\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Almost 92 tonnes of mancozeb-based products which are banned in the EU;<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 141 000 litres of 2,4-D-based products and 51 tonnes in dry form, banned in Vietnam, Norway and Mozambique;<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Over 37 tonnes of products using maleic hydrazide which is banned in the EU except under exceptional circumstances and also banned in India; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Over 26 tonnes of methomyl-based product banned in India and used under severe restrictions in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Plus<\/strong> \u2014 A<\/span>ccess the full inventory<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n