In this video, Vi Waghiyi explains how the chemicals are ending up in the Arctic and contaminating the region and her community.
Download the report we recently published with ACAT to learn more: bit.ly/ArcticsPlastic….

Our latest report with Endocrine Society raises new concerns about the profound threats to human health from endocrine disrupting chemicals ( #EDCs ) that are ubiquitous in our surroundings and everyday lives.
Learn more and download the report: ipen.org/documents/endo…

With the 3rd session of the #SPPCWP to take place in #GENeva in June, join this Road to #OEWG3 webinar that will trace an overview of the panel's origins, milestones & ongoing negotiations.

📅 16 May, 14:00 CEST / 15:00 EAT
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Our new report finds that global fisheries decline is linked with pollution from toxic chemicals and shows that these pollutants harm productivity and render fisheries at greater risk of overfishing, with severe consequences for global seafood resources: ipen.org/news/report-fi…

The next Road to OEWG 3 is happening on Thursday, 16 May at 2pm CET/ 8am EDT: genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/road-to…

This webinar is “Towards a Science-Policy Panel to Contribute Further to the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste and to Prevent Pollution: An Overview.”

Industry plans to produce more plastics and chemicals, regardless of the harmful impacts on Arctic Peoples or the climate. Hear from Indigenous Arctic leaders on the industry’s threats to their lands and lives in today’s report from IPEN and ACAT: bit.ly/ArcticsPlastic…

Plastic is everywhere, but that’s just a part of the story. Read the IPEN Plastics FAQs for a quick explainer on what plastic really is, how it’s made, the hazards throughout its lifecycle, and how a Plastics Treaty can protect people and the planet.

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The Plastic Industry’s Power
Over
The UN #PlasticsTreaty in focus

“Negotiators should consider measures “to protect against undue influence of corporate actors with proven vested interests that contradict the goals of the plastics treaty”
Read Lisa Song is @lisalsong.bsky.social
propublica.org/article/plasti…

IPEN: toxics-free As the treaty develops, we urge the committee to:
1. Recognize that more plastic production = more plastic pollution.
2. Eliminating toxic chemicals used in plastic production.
3. Ensure toxics-free circularity by preventing the use of hazardous chemicals in recycled plastics.

The fourth session (INC-4) of Plastics Treaty negotiations wrapped up last week, and for the first time produced draft text with pathways toward a global agreement. For more of ACAT and IPEN's
IPEN: toxics-free work at INC-4, see: stoppoisonplastic.org/plas.../plasti…

EHN @ehnewsroom shares a summary of a study that found methods for assessing hazardous chemicals fail to account for serious health threats - including IQ loss - posed by exposure to mixtures of different chemicals. Read more: ehn.org/chemical-mixtu…

The use of plastic films in farming has been linked to an accumulation of phthalates - an endocrine disrupting chemical with serious health effects - in both soil and wheat, according to a new study published in Science of the Total Environment. @HEEDS
ehn.org/agricultural-p…

This Kate Aronoff article at The New Republic discusses the plastic industry's use of 'plastic offsets' as a new strategy and explores the skepticism due to the inefficacy of similar schemes in the carbon market. newrepublic.com/article/181204…

👇🏼☠️ Precisely why plastic waste should NOT be made into building blocks for schools or anything else...not walls...not homes...not anything

Plastic is highly flammable 🔥& the blocks have to be soaked in flame retardant to prevent fires.

sciencealert.com/humans-can-abs… IPEN: toxics-free

“This is a crisis..
..and without curbing fossil fuel extraction and plastics production, the Arctic will continue to suffer all of these converging harms.”

news.mongabay.com/2024/05/plasti… ACAT High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution #plasticstreaty

The Road to #OEWG 3 is happening on Tuesday, 7 May, from 2pm-3:30pm CET / 8am-9:30am EDT.

Learn more and RSVP: genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/road-to…

Reality
♻️=⚠️

“only a small fraction of the plastics going into #chemicalrecycling facilities will become plastic
Most of it will become waste (often hazardous)
be burned as fuel
or be landfilled”

Plastic Recycling = Recycling Toxics

⁦Environmental Health News⁩ ehn.org/plastic-chemic…

After slow start, #PlasticsTreaty talks gain new momentum at #INC4 environewsnigeria.com/after-slow-sta… via EnviroNews
BAN Toxics Philippines UN Environment Programme IPEN: toxics-free GAIA Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives Public Awareness SRADeV Nigeria Leslie Adogame NESREANigeria NES National Mr. Climate Environment Ministry Alliance To End Plastic Waste CAPws| #PlasticsTreaty Climate & Sustainable Development Network

The #OEWG3 on the science-policy panel on chemicals, waste, and pollution prevention will take place from 17 to 21 June 2024 in #GENeva .

Join this briefing presenting documentation prepared for the upcoming meeting. #SPPCWP

📅 7 May 2024, 14:00 CEST
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As Aamjiwnaang First Nation deals with benzene emissions in the Sarnia, Ont., area making members sick, the small Ontario First Nation is pushing for a seat in global plastics treaty negotiations underway in Ottawa. cbc.ca/news/canada/wi…