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- 1. Introduction and Purpose
- 2. Production Information and Product Characteristics
- 3. Health Aspects
- 4. Environmental Aspects
- 5. Design and construction of transport and storage equipment
- 6. Transport, Loading and Storage Operations
- 7. Emergency procedures
- 8. Personal protection, first aid and medical treatment
- 9. Styrene: REACH Consortium
- Appendices
- Bibliography
2. Product Information and Characteristics
2.5. Environmental Effects
The EU authorities have concluded that styrene is not bio-accumulative and meets the "ready biodegradation" criteria of the 29th Adaptation to Technical Progress of the Dangerous Substances Directive. The European Environmental Risk Assessment of styrene has concluded that no classification is needed.Persistence of Styrene in the environment is very limited because of its volatility from soils and surface waters, its rapid destruction in air and its biodegradation in soils, and surface and ground waters.
Styrene is moderately toxic to aquatic organisms. Due to its high depletion rate from water the exposure rate may be very low.
More details on Styrene environmental effects can be found in Section 4 “Environmental Aspects”.
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