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Plastics

IPEN Plastics Treaty Platform

Tuesday, 24 May 2022 - 7:51pm

Protecting human health and the environment from toxic chemicals

Plastics are materials made of complex mixtures of chemicals, often including chemicals that are known to be hazardous to human health and to ecosystems at the global level.

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EDCs

Plastics, EDCs & Health

Monday, 14 December 2020 - 10:22am

This joint report of the Endocrine Society and IPEN provides the current best knowledge about the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on human health. It discusses chemicals known to be hazardous to human health yet actively used in plastics, exposures, the problem of microplastics, and the issues surrounding alternative plastics.

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Plastic

Dioxin Experts Present Studies on Health Threats from Cancer-Causing Chemicals

Research on PFAS and brominated dioxins shows ongoing health threats from toxic chemicals
Tuesday, 11 October 2022

New Orleans - At the Dioxin 2022 Conference beginning here on October 9, Dr. Jindrich Petrlik will present a recent study that demonstrates the failure of using high temperature approaches to eliminate wastes that contain the “forever chemicals” PFAS, and Valeriya Grechko will present another recent paper that found high levels of brominated dioxins in recycled plastic products purchased in eleven African, Arabic, and Latin American countries.

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Plastics Treaty INC1

The first meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC1) of the Plastics Treaty will meet from 28 November – 2 December 2022 in Punta del Este, Uruguay. See background on IPEN's work toward a Plastics Treaty, and check back to this page for resources and information ahead of the November meeting.

Stockholm Convention

U.N. Expert Committee Recommends Global Elimination of Two Toxic Plastic Additives

Friday, 30 September 2022

(Rome, Italy) A U.N. expert scientific review committee has evaluated two toxic, chemical additives found in many common plastics and has concluded the evidence of the substances harm to health and the environment qualify them for global elimination, recommending that the chemicals be listed under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).

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Dioxin

Dioxin 2022 Studies

Thursday, 29 September 2022 - 1:29pm
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Plastic

Addressing plastic crisis in Africa goes beyond mere waste management

Opinion article in The Standard by IPEN Communications Consultant Patricia Kombo
Thursday, 29 September 2022

Plastic pollution is visible and well documented, but we often overlook the invisible chemicals in plastics that are hazardous to people and the environment. Studies show that chemicals from plastics are linked to serious health problems (for more on health threats to Africa from plastics see the IPEN video at http://bit.ly/AfricaPlastic)

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Indiana Citizens’ Group Exposes False Promises of Proposed Plastic Waste to Fuel Plant

Thursday, 29 September 2022

A new report compiled by Valerie Denney, a long-time communications adviser to IPEN, warns that a plastic waste-burning “bioenergy” facility proposed for the city of Gary, Indiana (about 30 miles south of Chicago on the shore of Lake Michigan) will cause major health and environmental problems.

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Plastic

Plastics, Plastic Waste, and Chemicals in Africa

Tuesday, 13 September 2022

See the IPEN video showing how exports of plastics and plastic waste, mostly from wealthy countries, bring toxic chemicals to Africa, exposing children and families to harmful chemicals and poisoning the circular economy.

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