IPEN develops policy documents on the meeting agenda and emerging issues, as well as briefing papers, reports, and other materials.for each of he Plastics Treaty negotiating sessions. For the INC-5 meeting in Busan, Korea our materials include:
IPEN members researched the situation in their countries around plastic waste fuels, also called refuse derived fuel or RDF. Below are country-based reports with the results from each project.
IPEN member EARTH in Thailand coordinated with plastic recycling workers, plastic waste workers, and workers in other settings, such as office settings or other settings without occupational exposures to plastic waste to assess their exposures to chemicals in plastics.
Increasing plastic recycling has been presented as a solution to the plastic crisis, but the projected recycling numbers are often based on incorrect assumptions and misleading statistics. These are often intentionally presented to oversell the capacity and promise of plastic recycling. In this research briefing, we summarize the science on the limitations of plastic recycling and the skewed statistics that are often used to oversell its potential.
IPEN Quick Views on the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to Develop an International Legally Binding Instrument on Plastic Pollution
The Plastics Treaty INC-4 negotiations ended with a 77-page longcompilation draft.
