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