Enhancing Controls to Protect Human Health from Plastics

The Plastics Treaty is intended to include all impacts from plastics throughout their lifecycle. To address these impacts, the health and environmental effects from toxic chemicals in plastics, including in the waste stage, must be addressed. This briefing describes the increasingly clear links between plastics and their associated chemicals and plastic pollution with its detrimental effects on human health and the environment.

Read more in the full briefing.

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IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network)
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