On the First Anniversary of The Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC), global stakeholders call for the urgent establishment of the Global Alliance on Highly Hazardous Pesticides.
On 30th September last year, the international community took a landmark decision to endorse the formation of a Global Alliance on Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs), with the goal of prioritizing effective measures to phase out their use in agriculture.
Quezon City, Philippines/ Bangkok, Thailand. Environmental health organizations Ecological Waste Coalition of the Philippines (EcoWaste Coalition) and Ecological Alert and Recovery – Thailand (EARTH) commended the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Thailand for its action to stop the production and trade of 12 skincare cosmetics contaminated with mercury.
The report reviews dioxin and other POPs contamination in Novopolotsk, a city in Belarus that is the site of an oil reifnery and a plastics (polymers) production facility.
Incineration is an outdated, unsustainable method for waste disposal, as burning waste, especially plastics, produces dangerous air emissions and high amounts of toxic ash
Tuesday, 03 September 2024
A comprehensive new report “Waste incineration and the Environment” released today by Arnika, the Centre for Environment Justice and Development (CEJAD) in Kenya, Centre de Recherche et d‘Education pour le Développement (CREPD) in Cameroon, Toxics Free Australia (TFA), and IPEN finds that burning waste, especially plastics, produces unsustainable and unmanageable hazardous air emissions and large
A comprehensive new report “Waste incineration and the Environment” released today by Arnika, the Centre for Environment Justice and Development (CEJAD) in Kenya, Centre de Recherche et d‘Education pour le Développement (CREPD) in Cameroon, Toxics Free Australia (TFA), and IPEN finds that burning waste, especially plastics, produces unsustainable and unmanageable hazardous air emissions and large amounts of highly toxic solid residues (ash), concluding that alternatives to incineration should
Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has requested the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to convene a multi-stakeholder summit to tackle the persistent trade of mercury cosmetics across the country.
The group put forward the proposal through a letter submitted today to FDA Director General Dr. Samuel Zacate and FDA CCHUHSRR Director Engr. Ana Rivera by Aileen Lucero, National Coordinator of the EcoWaste Coalition, an environmental health group that has been tracking mercury cosmetics since 2011.
