IPEN International Pollutants Elimination Network

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Developing country voices will be excluded at UN plastic talks, say NGOs

Scientists and NGOs have accused the UN’s environment programme of locking out those “most needing to be heard” from upcoming negotiations in Paris aimed at halting plastic waste. Last-minute restrictions…

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UN Report: Global Controls on Chemicals and Reducing Production Key to Addressing the Plastics Crisis

Technical review calls for protecting health and the environment from toxic chemical exposures throughout the plastic life cycle  Geneva – A report released this week from the United Nations Environment…

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Countries Agree to Ban Two Toxic Plastic Chemicals and a Hazardous Pesticide

UV-328 and Dechlorane Plus, and the pesticide methoxychlor are added to the Annex A list under the Stockholm Convention for global elimination, but exemptions for the two plastic chemicals will…

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Toxic Chemicals from Plastic Waste Contaminate Kenya’s Food Chain and Products

Nairobi/Geneva – Ahead of tomorrow’s “PCB Fair” at the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions (BRS COPs), a study today from the Kenyan public interest group Centre for Environment Justice and…

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Global Advocates Tell Plastics Treaty Delegates: Our Health is in Your Hands

Punta del Este, Uruguay – As delegates from countries globally head here for the first intergovernmental Plastics Treaty negotiations (INC1) this week, women leaders from IPEN’s worldwide network displayed a…

IPEN Urges BRS COPs Delegates to Follow the Science, Ban Dangerous Chemicals Without Exemptions

IPEN network groups say delegates should reject chemical recycling for plastic wastes– a polluting, unproven technology — and support clean non-combustion technologies for destroying POPs waste Stronger, more health-protective rules…

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Toxic Plastic Chemical Found in Blood Samples of Thai Recycling Workers

At international meetings this week, Stockholm Convention delegates will decide on a global ban on the plastics chemical, Dechlorane Plus IPEN and its member groups from around the world call…

New Study Exposes Hidden Toxic Plastic Waste Trade

Contrary to current estimates, new research suggests that there is twice as much plastic waste exported to non-OECD countries Plastics are a mixture of fossil fuels and chemicals, and many…