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National Action

IPEN members advocate for strong national policies to protect communities from toxic waste incineration and dumping, including ending imports of hazardous waste from wealthier nations.

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National Action, International Success

Through her work in Tunisia, IPEN Steering Committee member Semia Gharbi helped uncover an international scandal in the toxic waste trade, ultimately changing EU policies to strengthen rules against exporting hazardous waste. Semia’s work earned her the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize.

Transparency and Protecting the Right-to-Know

Pollutant release and transfer register (PRTR) systems are environmental databases or inventories of hazardous pollutants released by industry and transferred for treatment or disposal. PRTR systems help safeguard the public’s environmental right to know and enable efforts to push for discharge reductions. Several IPEN members work for national policies to adopt and/or strengthen PRTR systems in their countries.

National research by IPEN members

Documenting Progress on POPs

Since 2005, IPEN members have researched POPs pollution in their nations and documented how their countries were progressing in upholding requirements under the Stockholm Convention to determine if priority problems such as stockpiles destruction, use phase-out, contaminated sites, and inventory development were being addressed.

Toxic Waste Threatens the Food Chain

IPEN members contributed country-based data on pollution from waste disposal by collecting eggs from free-range chickens roaming near incinerators, cement kilns, waste dumpsites, and other disposal facilities.

Plastic Waste

IPEN members conduct studies and document threats from plastic waste in their countries, advocating for global and national policies to protect their communities’ health.

Plastic Waste Fuels

IPEN exposed threats from the trade of refuse derived fuel (RDF) from Australia to Asia, forcing the Australian government to reaffirm its ban on the trade and classify RDF as hazardous waste.

See a map of selected global contaminated sites, compiled to identify and uncover toxic threats.

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Waste Incineration and the Environment

Große weiße Industriesäcke, einige fleckig und verwittert, sind in zwei Reihen neben schlammigem Wasser gestapelt, mit weiteren Säcken und einer kargen Landschaft im Hintergrund.

Geringe POPs-Gehalte und nicht-verbrennungsbasierte Technologien

Waste Incinerator Ash Poisons the Food Chain

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Dioxins and Global Boundaries

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Toxic Plastics: A Health Threat to the Circular Economy

Basel Ban Amendment Guide

Basel Ban Amendment Guide

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Weak Controls: European E-waste Poisons Africa’s Food Chain

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Toxic Ash Poisons Our Food Chain

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After Incineration: The Toxic Ash Problem (2015 update)

IPEN (Internationales Netzwerk zur Beseitigung schädlicher Stoffe)
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