Webinars
24 October 2022 — Webinar: Are Your Children's Toys Hazardous Waste
An IPEN study found highly toxic chlorinated paraffins in toys from 10 countries. According to recent studies, current levels of exposure to chlorinated paraffins may already be associated with adverse effects on human health. In this webinar, co-authors of the study IPEN Science Advisor Therese Karlsson, Ph.D. and IPEN Co-chair/Director of Alaska Community Action on Toxics Pamela Miller discuss the findings. Read the study here.
25 May 2022 — Revealing Chemicals in Food Contact Materials, Health Threats, and Global Policy Opportunities
Co-organized with Food Packaging Forum and the Biomonitoring Resource Center, this webinar will provide public access to the latest science on toxics in plastic food containers and overview of global policy regulations and opportunities to address chemicals of concern.
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21 April 2022 — IPEN Views on BRS COP: POPs in Waste Issues
IPEN supports strong limits to protect human health and the environment, while some parties support the weakest limits based on ‘economic considerations’ to protect industry profits in the plastic, recycling, and waste incineration sectors. Unfortunately, the current approach to setting limits neglects the serious harm to human health and socioeconomic costs that can arise from recycling wastes that contain POPs, and from waste exports to developing countries and countries with economies in transition.
For this webinar, IPEN invited representatives of governments and delegates to the upcoming Basel-Rotterdam-Stockholm (BRS) Conference of the Parties, as well as the public, to learn why such strong limits are important and how we reached our recommendations.
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22 March 2022 - How Plastics Poison the Circular Economy
New IPEN reports reveal significant obstacles for countries seeking to implement safe plastic circular economies, and handle large volumes of diverse plastics waste streams safely. As a result, known toxic chemicals are blindly allowed into plastic products and expose vulnerable populations including children and women. Furthermore, toxic chemicals that have been banned in other regions or under international chemicals conventions, continue to be used or recycled from old waste into new consumer products, resulting in risks that are impossible to quantify, and further fueling the supply of non-circular hazardous plastic waste globally. Better public policies are necessary to end the recycling of hazardous chemicals in plastics in a poisoned version of the circular economy, and to hold plastic producers financially liable for any harm caused through the life cycle of plastics.
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2 March 2022 — Exporting Plastic Fuels: What Happens After a Waste Export Ban
While Australia's "world first" waste export ban decision received international acclaim, closer scrutiny reveals that in fact, Australia is gearing up — with significant government funds and policies — to continue exporting its waste in a new “reprocessed” format. One result: Refuse Derived Fuels (RDF) are bales or pellets of mixed waste containing significant quantities of non-recyclable plastic, to be burned in cement kilns or other industrial furnaces, both in Australia and overseas, and specifically, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. Burning plastic waste undermines regional and global goals for action on climate change.
Stay tuned for recordings of the webinar in English, French, and Bahasa Indonesia. Click here for video in all available languages