Between 2017 and 2021, European countries accounted for over 27% of international patent families (IPFs) in clean technology globally. Clean inside the gaps of the trigger buttons. Pour about 1/2 cup of baking soda inside the empty drum and 2 cups of white vinegar into the detergent dispenser. 5. Scrub the inside: Use the brush to give the inside a scrub. In January 2013, US State Department cables showed a US investigation had found evidence that the Syrian military had used a chemical weapon on 23 December 2012, which was the first time an official investigation documented chemical weapon use in the conflict. Other non-stockpile agents (usually test kits) or old buried munitions are occasionally found and are sometimes destroyed in place. 1997 declared stockpile and destruction operations are under the Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives. Program Executive Office, Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives. Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky finished disposal on July 7, 2023 marking the destruction of all chemical weapons stockpiles declared to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international body implementing the CWC. Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado and Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.

The destruction facility for Pueblo began disposal operations in September 2016, while the destruction facility for Blue Grass began disposal operations in June 2019. Both Pueblo and Blue Grass were scheduled to complete by the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty commitment of Sept. Despite the disarmament process, which completed on 23 June 2014, dozens of incidents with suspected use of chemical weapons followed throughout Syria, mainly blamed on Syrian Ba’athist forces, as well as ISIL, Syrian opposition forces, and Turkish Armed Forces. In its third report dated 18 December 2014, the mission concluded that chlorine was used in the villages of Talmenes, Al-Tamanah and Kafr Zita, but did not assign blame. In 2014, the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission in Syria concluded the use of chlorine was systematic and widespread. In February 2012 a defector from the Syrian Arab Army, a lieutenant who worked in the chemical weapons department, told Turkish newspaper Hürriyet Daily News that “BZ-CS, Chlorine Benzilate, which damages people’s nerves and makes them fade away, is being used in Bab Amr.” He said that some Syrian soldiers had been supplied with gas masks for protection.

Since the start of uprisings across Syria in 2011, Syrian Arab Armed Forces and pro-Assad paramilitary forces have been implicated in more than 300 chemical attacks in Syria. On 22 December 2012, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that Syria had consolidated chemical weapons into one or two places to prevent rebels capturing them, and that recent moves that had alarmed Western governments were part of this consolidation. The third report blamed the Syrian government for two gas attacks in 2015, and accused ISIS of using mustard gas. Sky News. Archived from the original on 27 November 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2018. Opposition activists claim Assad’s troops used chemical weapons from several rocket launchers in Adra which killed two people and injured more than 20. According to the Arms Control Association, doctors said the weapons used were phosphorus bombs, which affect the nervous system. The deadliest attacks were the August 2013 sarin attack in Ghouta (killing between 281 and 1,729 people and injuring 3,600 patients), the April 2017 sarin attack in Khan Shaykhun (killing at least 89 people) and April 2018 Douma chemical attacks (killing 43 people and injuring 500 civilians).

Reuters reported in 2018 that, according to OPCW and diplomatic sources, an OPCW chemical marker analysis linked the destroyed stockpile samples to sarin samples from 21 August 2013 Ghouta attack and also to interviewees’ samples from Khan Sheikhoun and Khan Al-Assal attack sites. On 8 April 2020, the OPCW Investigation and Identification Team (IIT), set up in 2018, issued its first report, determining that the Syrian Air Force was the perpetrator of the chemical weapon attacks in Latamenah. In May 1991, President George H. W. Bush unilaterally committed the United States to destroying all chemical weapons and renounced the right to chemical weapon retaliation. In May 2019, there were reports of a chemical attack on Kabana in Latakia. Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s ambassador to the UN, said that its Syrian ally had asked Russian experts to look into the Khan al-Assal attack. The Syrian foreign minister Walid al-Moallem immediately welcomed the proposal. The Syrian Government has agreed to the mission. In late 2017, the JIM released its report on the April Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, attributing responsibility for the incident to the Syrian government.