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Low POPs
Limiting POPs Key in Stopping Flow of Chemicals in Waste
Thursday, 09 June 2022
Patricia Kombo, from IPEN's participating organization in Kenya, the Centre for Environmental Justice And Development (CEJAD), wrote an editorial for the Nairobi Standard about the ongoing chemical convention talks in Geneva. She notes a key question at the talks "should be on limiting the use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in waste to protect human health and the environment."
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Y48
Plastic Waste and Y48 Exemptions: Cured Resins, Condensation Products, and Fluoropolymers do not meet the criteria
Wednesday, 8 June 2022 - 1:33pm
Background

The listing of plastic wastes as Y48 in annex II of the Basel Convention includes exemptions for a range of plastics “provided it is destined for recycling in an environmentally sound manner and almost free from contamination and other types of wastes”.
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Document:

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Toxic Trash Making Women Sick
IPEN experts comment in Vice News story
Monday, 06 June 2022
Materials such as plastic and e-waste contain a cocktail of chemicals that studies show can disturb the body’s natural hormones. As ever-higher volumes of trash continue to end up in landfills, primarily waste exported from Western countries to low- and middle-income countries, waste pickers will be on the front lines of what scientists are calling an emerging health issue of global concern. And women are especially at risk.
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POPs waste in a circular economy - Side Event

Information from this side event:
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Fact Sheets for BRS COP 2022

IPEN created several fact sheets for the benefit of participants at the BRS COP 2022.
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Promoting Stronger Protections on Chemicals at BRS COP
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Interventions at BRS COP 2022

IPEN closing statement

Presented by Sara Brosché, 17 June 2022

Thank you Mr President for giving IPEN the floor, and good afternoon Distinguished Delegates.

IPEN, as a global network of non-profit, civil society organizations, participates to bear witness for the billions of people whose well-being and human rights are affected by the decisions that are being made here.
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Global Talks on Harmful Chemicals Begin This Week
Monday, 06 June 2022
Geneva, Switzerland IPEN members from around the world are gathering in Geneva, Switzerland from June 6 to 17 at the meetings of the global Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm Conventions. IPEN is an official observer group at the meetings, with a role of educating delegates and contributing to the Convention talks to promote the need for stronger protections for our health and the environment. The talks will cover a wide range of issues, from toxic chemicals in plastics to the need for stronger protections from hazardous wastes.
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PFAS
PFHxS: The Case for a Class-Based Listing
Thursday, 2 June 2022 - 10:14am
Background
The aim of the Stockholm Convention is to protect human
health and the environment from Persistent Organic
Pollutants (POPs). Parties to the Convention have therefore committed to take precautionary action on POPs, recognizing that they are toxic, resist degradation, and bioaccumulate, and that they are transported across international boundaries and deposited far from where they are released. Impacts on indigenous communities, women, and future generations are acknowledged in the Treaty as of special concern.
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Document:

pops-fact-sheet-pfhxs-v1_1-en.pdf

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Cancer-causing Dioxins and PCBs Threaten the Food Supply and Human Health Globally
A child eating one egg from near an E-waste recycling site in Ghana is exposed to more dioxins than the tolerable limit for 5 years
Wednesday, 01 June 2022
A new review of data from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America has found that cancer-causing dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), unintentionally produced chemicals regulated in developed countries since the 1990s and internationally since 2004, continue to poison the food supply, at concentrations that pose serious health threats.
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Limiting POPs Key in Stopping Flow of Chemicals in Waste

Plastic Waste and Y48 Exemptions: Cured Resins, Condensation Products, and Fluoropolymers do not meet the criteria

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plastics-fact-sheet-noy48exemption-v1_3-en.pdf

Toxic Trash Making Women Sick

POPs waste in a circular economy - Side Event

Fact Sheets for BRS COP 2022

Promoting Stronger Protections on Chemicals at BRS COP

Interventions at BRS COP 2022

IPEN closing statement

Global Talks on Harmful Chemicals Begin This Week

PFHxS: The Case for a Class-Based Listing

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pops-fact-sheet-pfhxs-v1_1-en.pdf

Cancer-causing Dioxins and PCBs Threaten the Food Supply and Human Health Globally

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