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Sigue Avanzando Nuestra Alerta Para Evitar El Desecho Irresponsable de Tuberías de Plomo Provenientes de Los Estados Unidos.
CASA CEM México
El 20 de abril del año 2022, CASA CEM, en conjunto con las organizaciones internacionales Occupational Knowledge International y Basel Action Network, publicaron un comunicado de prensa en el que alertaban sobre el enorme riesgo de la posible exportación irresponsable de tuberías de plomo de desecho que se generarían por la puesta en marcha de la ley federal de infraestructura de los Estados Unidos para remover las tuberías de plomo del servicio de agua potable en este país.
El día 5 de febrero del 2024, esta alerta fue incluida en una recomendación oficial al Reglamento Nacional de Agua Potable Primaria para Plomo y Cobre publicado por la Agencia para la Protección Ambiental de los EstadosUnidos. Dicha recomendación fue presentada por las siguientes organizaciones norteamericanas: Natural Resources Defense Council, Earth justice,Campaign for Lead Free Water, Concerned Pastors for Social Action, Flint Rising, Newark Education Workers Caucus, United Parents Against Lead y Water You Fighting For?
Países como México, que en el año 2021 recibieron el 50% de las exportaciones globales de chatarra de plomo junto con la India, son especialmente vulnerables a poder ser receptores de dichos residuos tóxicos para su reciclaje. Las recomendaciones sobre la disposición adecuada de las tuberías de plomo de desecho que serán generadas por el programa de los Estados Unidos han sido publicadas en un documento de UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
National Primary Drinking Water Regulations for Lead and Copper:Improvements (LCRI)
88 Fed. Reg. 84,878 (Dec. 6, 2023)
Comments of: Submitted via Regulations.gov
Docket No. EPA-HW-OW-2022-0801
February 5, 2024
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Newest IPEN Reports
Hazardous Chemicals in Plastic Products
Both the environment in Africa and the Arabic region and the human health of Africans and people from Arabic countries suffer from toxic chemicals and imported wastes, including illegal wastes, more than in developed countries.
This study shows that toxic chemicals are present in toys, kitchen utensils, and other consumer products purchased from African and Arabic region markets in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Jordan, Kenya, Morocco, Syria, Tanzania, and Tunisia.
Plastic Waste Fuels
IPEN studies show how policy is driving massive investment in plastic waste-to-fuel processing, and that exports are threatening waste management in ASEAN countries and undermining the Basel Convention and climate change commitments.
Plastic Poisons the Circular Economy
IPEN published a number of studies showing significant obstacles for countries seeking to implement safe plastic circular economies. The studies reveal that countries are unable to handle large volumes of diverse plastics waste streams safely, and the reality that, without regulations requiring plastic ingredients to be labeled, countries are blindly allowing known toxic chemicals onto their markets in plastic products.
Plastic pellets found on beaches all over the world contain toxic chemicals
Preproduction plastics as pellets, or "nurdles", can carry many different chemicals, both those added to the plastics and pollutants that attach (sorb) to them in the environment. Often lost during production, transportation, and storage, pellets have been found on beaches all over the world since the 1970s. This study of plastic pellets gathered from beaches in 23 different countries contained many chemicals of concern, some in very high concentrations.
Widespread chemical contamination of recycled plastic pellets globally
Because almost all plastics contain toxic chemicals, recycling processes can perserve and can even generate toxic chemicals, such as dioxins. In this study, pellets made from recycled HDPE, intended for use in new products, were purchased from 24 recyclers in 23 countries and analyzed for 18 substances. The large number of toxic chemicals in many of the samples highlights the need to rethink recycling to ensure it does not perpetuate harms..
Plastic’s Toxic Chemical Problem: A Growing public health crisis
This summary of our two plastic pellets reports encapsulate the broad issues related to toxic chemicals in plastics and the concerns with recycling processes that can perserve or generate toxic chemicals.
Plastic Waste Management Hazards
Plastic waste has become an unprecedented pollution issue, blanketing our planet in the petrochemical remnants of plastic production. This report examines current and emerging methods by which plastic waste is managed globally and questions whether any of them present a solution to the rapidly accelerating generation of plastic waste. In short, they don't and the only long-term answer is to produce less plastic.
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Red de Accion en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas para America Latina (RAPAM) / Centro de Analisis y Accion en Toxicos y sus Alternativas (CAATA)
Based in Mexico
Regional Coordinator: Fernando Bejarano
Contact: lachub@ipen.org
RAPAM / CAATA has the mission to promote the progressive phase-out of hazardous chemicals that threaten human health and the environment, and to change public policy to support alternatives including agroecological agriculture, clean production and exercising rights for a healthy and toxics-free environment for the present and future generations.
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Hablando con los medios de comunicación para ambiente y a nuestra salud
Presentación introductoria sobre comunicaciones estratégicas y promoción de los medios para Miembros de IPEN en América Latina y el Caribe. Centrado en los conceptos fundamentales de abogacía (advocacy) en los medios. Con Shaddai Martínez y Rosaura Wardswort del Grupo de Estudios de Medios de Berkeley (BMSG).23 de enero 2023
Vea nuestros seminarios web recientes sobre el insecticida clorpirifos; en versión español (en dos partes) en https://youtu.be/87uyknT4jV8 y https://youtu.be/AdohvPsVlSk y su versión en inglés en https://youtu.be/9hR9s80XYJo
View our recent webinars on the insecticide chlorpyrifos; in Spanish version (in two parts) at https://youtu.be/87uyknT4jV8 and https://youtu.be/AdohvPsVlSk and in English version at https://youtu.be/9hR9s80XYJo