Plastic Recycling: Threats to Consumers, Communities, and Waste Workers

IPEN and its members have conducted several studios showing the dangers from plastic recycling to consumers, communities, and plastic waste workers. See some of the research reports, below. Also see the 2023 report from Greenpeace on toxic plastic recycling, Forever Toxic, featuring data from sveeral IPEN studies.

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Icono PDF 100s of Toxic Chemicals in Recycled Plastic Pellets (2024, English) 450 KB
Icono PDF 100s of Toxic Chemicals in Recycled Plastic Pellets (2024, Spanish) 243 KB
Icono PDF 100s of Toxic Chemicals in Recycled Plastic Pellets (2024, Chinese) 445 KB
Icono PDF 100s of Toxic Chemicals in Recycled Plastic Pellets (2024, French) 168 KB
Icono PDF Toxic Plastic Recycling in Thailand (2023) 2 MB
Icono PDF Recycled Plastic Products: Kenya (2023) 555 KB
Icono PDF Recycled Plastic Products from 11 Countries Contain Toxic Chemicals (2022) 2 MB
Icono PDF Plastic’s Toxic Additives and the Circular Economy (2020, English) 8 MB
Icono PDF Plastic’s Toxic Additives and the Circular Economy (2020, Chinese) 9 MB
Icono PDF Plastic’s Toxic Additives and the Circular Economy (2020, Arabic) 10 MB
Icono PDF Plastic’s Toxic Additives and the Circular Economy (2020, French) 9 MB
Icono PDF Plastic’s Toxic Additives and the Circular Economy (2020, Russian) 9 MB
Icono PDF Plastic’s Toxic Additives and the Circular Economy (2020, Spanish) 9 MB
Icono PDF Toxics in Recycled Plastic Products in Africa (2021) 2 MB
Icono PDF Toxics in Recycled Plastic Products (2021) 354 KB
Icono PDF Toxic Soup: Dioxins in Recycled Plastic Toys (2018) 1 MB
Icono PDF Toxic Loophole (2018) 5 MB
Icono PDF Toxic Loophole (2018 Summary) 2 MB
Icono PDF Recycled Plastic Toys Contaminated with POPs (2017, English) 2 MB
Icono PDF Recycled Plastic Toys Contaminated with POPs (2017, Chinese Summary) 260 KB
Icono PDF Recycled Plastic Toys Contaminated with POPs (2017, Russian Summary) 290 KB
Icono PDF Recycled Plastic Toys Contaminated with POPs (2017, Spanish Summary) 574 KB
Icono PDF Recycled Plastic Toys Contaminated with POPs (2017, French Summary) 103 KB
IPEN (Red Internacional de Eliminación de Contaminantes)
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