National Action

For more than twenty years, IPEN members have produced original research and advocated for national regulations to prevent threats from plastics and plastic waste. Their work has successfully changed national and global policies to protect health and the environment.

IPEN members have documented threats from plastic waste in their countries, including from plastic recycling, waste dumps, and plastic waste fuels.

National research by IPEN members

IPEN members have researched impacts from the production and use of endocrine disrupting chemicals in plastics: phthalates – the everywhere and everyone chemical – and bisphenols. 

Reports

Plastic Products

For decades, IPEN members have tested plastic toys and children’s products, textiles, household goods, and other products for toxic plastic chemicals.

Plastic Waste: Country-based Reports

IPEN members have documented threats from plastic waste in their countries, including from plastic recycling, waste dumps, and other sources.

Plastic Waste Fuels: Burning Plastic, Creating Pollution

With growing mounds of plastic waste, the industry is moving to promote burning plastic waste as fuel. IPEN members researched the situation in their countries around plastic waste fuels, also called refuse-derived fuel or RDF.

Plastic Recycling Dangers

IPEN and its members have conducted several studies showing the dangers from plastic recycling to consumers, communities, and plastic waste workers.

Plastic Waste & the Food Chain

Since 2005, IPEN members have documented health threats to the food chain and the environment from plastic waste burning in incinerators and waste dumps by sampling chicken eggs from free-range chickens roaming near these facilities, documenting chemical releases from plastic waste.

Plastic: Country-based Reports​

IPEN members have conducted research on threats from plastic production, imports, use, and disposal in their countries, including from plastic recycling, waste dumps, incineration, and other sources. Their reports are often the only source of local information on impacts from plastics, and serve to inform national, regional, and global policy deliberations.

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Two bear-shaped toys are shown side by side, each enclosed in white netting. The left bear is brown with a white chest and black shoes; the right bear is pink and black with writing visible on its side.

Toxic Plastic Chemicals: Phthalates and Bisphenols

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Plastic Waste Management with a Focus on Polymers

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Plastics Treaty Scorecard

Plastics Poison the Workplace: Chemical Exposures to Plastic Waste and Recycling Workers

An informational flyer titled Hazardous Plastic Waste in Disguise: An IPEN Plastic Waste Briefing, with sections discussing refuse derived fuel (RDF), regulations, and potential hazards of burning plastic waste.

Refuse Derived Fuel: Hazardous Plastic Waste in Disguise

Ending Threats from Toxic Plastics

A rectangular green pie with a brown crust sits on a round plate atop a wooden surface. Bright green smoke or vapor rises from the pie, creating a mysterious atmosphere.

A Small Slice of the Toxic Pie

The Plastic Industry’s Muddled Math

report cover: blue plastic pellets and photo of dirty recycling facility

Hundreds of Toxic Chemicals Present in Recycled Plastic Pellets

cover image of plastic waste dump site

Frequently Asked Questions on Plastics and Chemicals

빈 플라스틱 병으로 채워진 큰 비닐 봉지들이 잔디밭 위에 놓여 있고, 그 앞에는 많은 플라스틱 병들이 흩어져 있습니다. 흐린 하늘 아래 배경에는 건물과 나무들이 보입니다.

Plastics: Country-based Reports

report cover: a chemical recycling facility at night

Chemical Recycling: A Dangerous Deception

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