| Indicator: Chemical releases to the environment |
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| Objective: Reduce environmental impact of chemicals |
- The UK Chemicals Strategy included a commitment to develop a set of indicators as a way of measuring the strategy's aims. The Chemicals Stakeholder Forum, set up under the strategy, has overseen a project which proposed a set of indicators and suggested ways in which they might be taken forward. The project report, "Performance Indicators for the UK Chemicals Strategy" is available from the Defra web site.
- The UK chemicals strategy is, however, currently under review together with the Stakeholder Forum and further development of the indicators will be dependant on the outcome of this. Nevertheless, the project report offers suggestions for indicators that could be more widely used for measuring the effectiveness of chemicals policy.
- The incidence of certain chemicals in the environment is covered by other indicators in QoLC, including: persistent organic pollutants (M1); dangerous substances in water (M2); selected air pollutants (P1, P2); sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides emissions (P3).
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