Help us demand a healthy, safe, toxic-free future for all by:
📨 Sharing this thread.
💻 Visiting the thetruetoxictoll.eu campaign page.
👋 Engaging with your local/national environmental groups for a moratorium on incineration.

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💡 What can be done?

All of us (but especially communities living near incinerators) should be aware of the harmful effects of incineration emissions.

ZWE calls for healthy, safe, toxic-free waste management practices; and an #EU moratorium on all incineration projects

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🚨 Why should you care?

These pollutants are not just bad for the planet; they're dangerous for our health too. Dioxins, PFAS, and heavy metals can lead to serious health issues: including cancer, reproductive, and developmental problems - and immune system interference.

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Eggs sampled in both Dutch and Slovak locations would not have been OK to eat or sell due to the high number of harmful chemicals and persistent pollutants found in them.

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Chickens in the surroundings of the REC waste incinerator in Harlingen 🇳🇱 are laying eggs with dioxin levels nearly 300% above the safe EU limits! Even the vegetation and fruits in the area are not spared, showing traces of these harmful substances.

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In Slovakia, near the Cementáreň Turňa nad Bodvou, similar tests found dioxins and PFAS in eggs and fruits that exceed safety thresholds, with heavy metals also alarmingly high in local mosses and water.

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Zero Waste Europe and ToxicoWatch analysed food and vegetation grown near incinerators in Slovakia 🇸🇰 and the Netherlands 🇳🇱 - including apples, grapes, figs, and backyard chicken eggs.

What did the biomonitoring research results find?

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🤔 Do you know the true toxic toll of waste #incineration ?

Waste incinerators are harmful to the environment and our health. And we have the research to prove it! 👇

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#Maldives NOAA Coral Program
#coralbleaching outlook

We are now on Alert Level 1
The outlook looks mad and RED

Are we bothered?
Government of Maldives
The President's Office Ministry of Construction and Infrastructure must work on becoming science-literate!

STOP THE DREDGING 🛑

The Maldives is on the precipice of a catastrophic future, warns United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to a healthy environment, David R. Boyd.

Read More: plus.mv/english/un-exp…

Super excited! More details coming soon 🚀💫

🚨Breaking news: Maldives Space Research Organisation Founder Madin Maseeh announces partnership with Space Exploration and Research Agency to try to send the first Maldivian or Small Islands representative into Space within the end of the year.
SERA Space has partnered with
Blue Origin to develop a human space flight program…

Plastic pollution isn't just an environmental issue, health is impacted.
From production to disposal, the risks are pervasive.

It's time for a comprehensive life-cycle approach.
Let's prioritize health in the new treaty on plastic pollution currently being developed.

#EarthDay

'ޤާނޫނު ނަންބަރު 9/2021 (ކްލައިމެޓް އިމަރޖަންސީ ޤާނޫނު) ތަންފީޒުކުރަމުންދާ ގޮތާމެދު ޢާންމުންގެ ޚިޔާލު ހޯދުމަށް ހުޅުވާލުން

Do provide your opinions on the implementation of the Climate Emergency Act by 28 April 2024, and support this PLS initiative by WFD Maldives and the Environment and Climate Change Committee!

Save The Beach Maldives assures you that with the support of our community, we will persist in our efforts to keep Villimale beaches clean, for as long as we can💪🏾🪸

Press statement regarding Malé City Council dismantling our workspace without any notice during Eid holidays. We are profoundly disheartened by the actions of the Malé City Council Currently, we are being forcefully evicted.Malé City Council Adam Azim Dr Mohamed Muizzu Min. of Climate Change, Environment and Energy

Gotta keep recycling this headline for years to come.

The #Maldives 'Ministry of #ClimateChange '
changed regulations
TO FACILITATE
SAND MINING at
MARINE PROTECTED AREAS.

Yes - you read that right.

Sediment from dredging reaches not just the designated mere 200m exclusion zone but several km across the atoll!
Lived reality👇🏾

If it's designed to be thrown away it'll always end up as litter. Plastic, paper glass or otherwise.