Nenaudojami seni pesticidai buvo sandėliuojami ilgus metus, todėl iškilo saugaus jų laikymo ir aplink sandėlius esančių teritorijų užterštumo problema. Šie sandėliai rasti visoje Lietuvoje šalia ežerų ar upių buvusių kolūkių teritorijose, jautriose aplinkos užterštumo požiūriu vietose. Taigi šios vietos gali būti potencialūs taršos šaltiniai, keliantys pavojų aplinkai ir žmonių sveikatai. Šiame darbe nagrinėti 20 – ties buvusių pesticidų sandėlių teritorijų ekogeologiniai tyrimai. Daugiau nei pusėje iš jų, t.y. 13 – oje, fiksuota tarša pesticidais. Tai patvirtina, kad daugiau nei pusė Lietuvoje esančių pesticidų sandėlių ir saugyklų teritorijų yra taršos židiniai, kurias reikia tvarkyti. Dažniausiai fiksuoti viršijantys teisės aktais nustatytas didžiausias leistinas koncentracijas tokie pesticidai: DDT, HCH. Kitų tyrimų duomenimis šie pesticidai taip pat labiausiai paplitę buvusių kolūkinių pesticidų sandėlių teritorijose. Jie taip pat laikomi vienais labiausiai dirvožemį teršiančiais pesticidais visame pasaulyje. Lietuva – ne išimtis. Užterštų teritorijų mastai verčia rimtai galvoti apie keliamą ekologinę grėsmę aplinkai, pavojų žmonėms, kurie savaime neišnyks. Tam reikalinga savivaldybių ir valdžios institucijų atitinkamų veiksmų programa. / Unused old pesticides have been stored for many years, causing the safe storage and the contamination problem in territory around the warehouses. These stores found in Lithuania near lakes or rivers in the former collective farms in areas sensitive to environmental pollution in terms of locations. So this place could be potential sources of pollution, threatening the environment and human health. This work analyses twenty former pesticide storages areas eco-geological studies. More than half of them, i.e., in thirteen of them contamination by pesticides is recorded. What really confirms that more than half of pesticide warehouses and storage areas in Lithuania are pollution sources that need to be cleaned. The most common pesticides fixed above the statutory levels: DDT, HCH. Other studies indicate that these pesticides are also most prevalent in the former collective farm pesticide storage areas. They also recorded as ones of the most soil polluting pesticides all over the world, Lithuania – no exceptions. Huge territory of contamination is a cause for serious thinking about the ecological threat to the environment, which does not go away by its own, this requires local authorities action plan.

Along with industrial and economic growth there is a persistent risk of permanently increasing air pollution. Air pollution has especially grown in the second half of the 20th century due to intense development of energy, industry and transport sectors. These pollution sources still remain the largest air polluters. Solvents, paints, glues, ink and other substances, emitting volatile organic compounds to air are used in such industries like reel, metal and wood coating, covering with glue sticks, footwear production, production of pharmaceutical products, printing, dry (chemical) surface cleaning etc. Emissions of volatile organic compounds make harm both to people and environment as well as damage the ozone layer. Volatile organic compounds also affect smog formation and green house effect. In the paper it is hypothesised that after implementation of EU legislation, observing the given emission limit values, improving technologies and implementing new treatment technologies, applying the measures to reduce pollution with volatile organic compounds and replacing the materials, emitting volatile organic compounds, with less polluting ones or those without pollution, air emission of volatile organic compounds will reduce dramatically. This master’s paper reviews the measures and ways to manage pollution with volatile organic compounds (VOC): directives and their requirements, transferred to the national laws of the member states, addressed to solve the VOC pollution problem... [to full text]