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Non-combustion

Getting Rid of Toxics: The Nonpolluting Alternatives | Repairing Toxic Damages

On the sidelines of the 51st Regular Session of the Human Rights Council, this year’s Geneva Toxic Free Talks took place over two days of conferences and discussions, celebrating 25 years of the mandate and the struggle for the right to live in a toxic free environment.

In this video, Lee Bell, IPEN Policy Adviser, spoke (from 40:10 to 1:10:25) at the side event on non-combustion technologies for plastic waste disposal and the myth of chemical recycling of plastics.

Incineration

Dioxins and Global Boundaries

Wednesday, 1 June 2022 - 10:29am

Weak regulations mean losing control of dioxin contamination 

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Low POPs

Limits for definition of POPs Waste Proposed by IPEN

Thursday, 26 May 2022 - 11:15am

POPs waste is defined, according Article 6 of the Stockholm Convention, by setting Low POPs Content Levels (LPCLs). This establishes an important kind of “limit value” because POPs waste should be treated such that POPs are either destroyed or irreversibly transformed. They cannot be landfilled, reused, or recycled, because POPs content in that waste would also be recycled and thus would not stop this chemical pollution from entering the environment.

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Non-combustion

Non-Combustion Technology Already Available

Thursday, 26 May 2022 - 10:46am

We don't need to burn POPs waste!

The European Union has an opportunity to prevent toxic recycling through the substantial strengthening of limit values for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in waste, known as Low POPs Content Levels. Establishing strong limit values for POPs in waste today will significantly promote the future of a toxic-free circular economy, because it will promote innovation in recycling, increase the pressure on industrial designers to remove POPs from products, and ensure that the circular economy is not poisoned in its infancy.

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Incineration

Non-Combustion Technology for POPs waste destruction

Thursday, 8 April 2021 - 6:32pm

Non-combustion technologies for the destruction of persistent organic pollutant (POP) waste have been around since the 1990’s. They provide a non-polluting and effective alternative to incineration of POPs waste, an old technology which continues to release and emit unintentional POPs (UPOPs). Incineration has become a trap with a never-ending cycle of attempted POPs waste destruction followed by more unintentional POPs creation in the form of dioxins and furans from the combustion process. Non-combustion processes can destroy the same waste and allow us to break free of the POPs cycle once and for all.

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Stockholm Convention

Interventions 1 May, 2019

Saturday, 4 May 2019 - 8:39am
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POPs

Interventions 29 April, 2019

Saturday, 4 May 2019 - 7:32am
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POPs

New Briefing Paper on Non-combustion Techniques for POPs Waste Destruction

Tuesday, 02 April 2019

(français, español, 中文 / English / عربى )
Non-combustion techniques for the destruction of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) waste such as PCBs, dioxins and brominated flame retardants are urgently needed to destroy the world's growing stockpile of materials contaminated with the most dangerous contaminants on earth. Using incineration and cement kilns to attempt to destroy POPs only leads to the generation of more unintentionally produced POPs (UPOPs) in their emissions and solid waste. This new technical briefing paper from IPEN describes non-combustion techniques that have been commercialised and proven for the destruction of POPs. They are also considered to be more readily applicable to developing countries due to their less intensive capital and infrastructure requirements.

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