IPEN: toxics-free
@ToxicsFree
https://t.co/MM15jaacUj We are a global network of 600+ public interest orgs in 129 countries working to eliminate toxic substances & places #PlasticsTreaty
ID:829135068
http://www.ipen.org 17-09-2012 14:12:30
24,9K Tweets
7,8K Followers
3,4K Following
Follow People
'Indigenous peoples have a right to a healthy environment and too often are impacted by polluting industries.'
Steven Guilbeault
Plastic chemical #benzene
Poisons People
Ecojustice Fenceline Watch
#toxicplastics #plasticspoison reuters.com/world/americas…
Plastics linked to heart disease
“a new study finds that people with microplastics in the plaque clogging their neck arteries were far more likely to have a heart attack or stroke than people with plastic-free plaque”
Dr Maria Neira
#PlasticsTreaty health.harvard.edu/heart-health/m…
Making plastics is
Making people sick
It took a health crisis in Canada to get action on the health hazards of the plastic chemical #benzine 🤷🏽🤷🏻♀️🤷🏼♂️🤷🏿♂️
We need global controls to protect our health from the toxic plastic life cycle
#plasticstreaty
High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution Ecojustice
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…
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