Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance 😵‍💫 We gauged experts understanding on plastic additives and conclude that we don’t know much 🚨⬇️ sciencedirect.com/science/articl… GRID-Arendal #plasticpollution #additives #INC #GlobalPlasticTreaty

🌞 In urgent need of sun...get your spring sorted! 😎 SETAC Europe 34th Annual Meeting will be in Seville from 5-9 May 2024 📄 Submit your abstract before 29 November 2023🥼 Share your research in our session:🌉 Plastic Pollution: Bridging the Gap Between Science & Policy Needs

🕺🏻 A little less conversation…🎶🎵 🕸️ This article explores the complex network to establish an effective global plastics treaty 🇺🇳 GRID-Arendal Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) SINTEF Source to Seas - Zero Pollution 2030 Norges forskningsråd Norad Emily Cowan #inc3 #PlasticsTreaty doi.org/10.1017/plc.20…

⚠️ Need to strengthen your #globalplasticstreaty negotiation skills? 🇺🇳👀 Have a look at our ultimate #INC3 cheat sheet 👇 grida.no/publications/1… 🌍 An output of the AFRIPAC project GRID-Arendal IUCN Plastics #PlasticsTreaty #EPPIC_Plastics Norad

👊 The instrument is coming, change is on its way - Inger Andersen 🇰🇪 #PlasticsTreaty 🔖 UN Environment Programme

#GlobalPlasticTreaty in the making…🔧🔩👷‍♀️👷 Sunshine state of mind 🌞 UN Environment Programme

📽️ Dive Deep - or go home! 👀 Find out what the ICES Working Group on Marine Litter does in this video 🍿 “The deeper you go the weirder life gets” - Steve Zissou 🐳🐙

💥 Having a blast in Iceland! 🇮🇸 It’s great to let steam off during panel sessions & discuss how to stay active in monitoring plastic pollution in the Arctic! 🎇 Go with the flow or or do some methods have their faults? Volca-no or volca-yes? Emily Cowan Dr. Jennifer Provencher GRID-Arendal

Yo, VIP Let's kick it Ice ice baby Ice ice baby All right stop Collaborate and listen… #ArcticPlasticSymposium 🇮🇸 ⛔️#plasticpollution Source to Seas - Zero Pollution 2030 GRID-Arendal

One day to go! Submit your abstract on "#PlasticPollution: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Policy Needs" 6.12! Looking forward to reviewing your submissions! SETAC Microplastics Interest Group Students of SETAC #SETAC2024 Thomas Maes setac.confex.com/setac/europe20…

A problem well stated is a problem half solved 💡 Start December merry and bright 🎄 Join us at this hybrid symposium “Learning to solve plastic pollution: from knowledge to action” 🎅 🗓️ December 1st at 12:00 CET 🔗 ou.nl/-/symposium-le… The Open University 🎓

Maritime Accidents & Environmental Pollution – The X-Press Pearl Disaster ⚓️ This book discusses in detail the facts & findings related to the accident that occurred in #SriLanka 🇱🇰 Read all about our experiences to clean up the mess in Chapter 5: Onshore Responses 🧹GRID-Arendal

PFAS – Our intimate relation with these forever chemicals & the case of 3M in Antwerp, Belgium. 90% of residents in Zwijndrecht, Beveren, & Antwerp Left Bank have PFAS levels in their bodies, surpassing recommended safety thresholds & posing elevated health complications risks ☠️

❤️‍🩹 Unfortunately there are things outside of our control, like #PFAS, toxic chemicals in our environment with a devastating health impact🎗️ Awareness precedes change…check out this infographic, learn more about the PFAS issue and #EU actions 🇪🇺 soszeropol2030.eu/resources/pfas…

My greatest scientist 👩‍🔬 ❤️ Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🎉 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams 🏋️‍♀️ 🧫🔭🔬⚗️🥼🧪 #womeninscience 🚺 🏛️ Natural History Museum

35,100,000,000,000,000,000 😱 🫧 That’s the estimated number of plastic #microbeads emitted from face wash, face scrub, shower gel and body scrub products alone in #India in 2021, a number that will only increase without further regulations 🚨🧴🧼🛀🚿 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Last week, we ran a successful #AFRIPAC workshop in Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 and Guinea Bissau 🇬🇼. This week, we are in São Tomé & Príncipe 🇸🇹. The workshops equip policymakers & stakeholders with guidance & inspiration to enhance #African nations negotiating capacity for a robust GPT 🇺🇳

Sometimes the end and the beginning are the same ⭕️ #INC4 #fullcircle Inger Andersen it only really starts when INC ends 😅 ⛔️#plasticpollution

🛞 Tyredness can kill ☣️🐟 ☠️ 🙏 #INC4 let’s include #TWP as part of the #PlasticPollution problem in the #GlobalPlasticTreaty 🇺🇳

The Rule of 3️⃣: the third session of negotiations (INC-3) on the global treaty to end plastic pollution link.springer.com/article/10.100… SINTEF 🇳🇴 GRID-Arendal 🇳🇴 Lund University 🇸🇪 NIVA 🇳🇴 UN Environment Programme 🇺🇳