By Tripti Arora, Coordinator, IPEN South Asia Hub, IPEN Gender Coordinator
As plastic pollution spirals into a full-scale environmental and health crisis, the world is witnessing mounting calls for urgent, comprehensive action. A Global Plastics Treaty is now on the agenda, aiming to curb the toxic toll of plastics across ecosystems and communities. Yet, to be truly effective, this treaty needs to acknowledge a crucial but often overlooked dimension: gender.
Increasing plastic recycling has been presented as a solution to the plastic crisis, but the projected recycling numbers are often based on false assumptions and misleading statistics. These are often intentionally presented to oversell the capacity and promise of plastic recycling.
In this research brief, we summarize the science on the limitations of plastic recycling and the skewed statistics that are often used to oversell its potential.
The problem of plastic in the Kyrgyz Republic is quite serious, with no facilities for complex processing or disposal of waste in the country. Waste recycling industry is at extremely low levels as almost all garbage goes to landfills and the legal sector of waste processing is extremely poorly developed.
Tajikistan is at the beginning of activities to reduce the use of plastic products in the country. There is limited national control of chemicals in plastics, preventing the toxic-free recycling of plastics into secondary raw materials or products with specific consumer properties.
ECOTON Urges Establishment of Standards to Protect Gen Z and Gen Alpha
Wednesday, 02 October 2024
Indonesia is currently facing a microplastic crisis, with plastic pollution reaching national levels and posing serious threats to human health and the environment. Based on various recent data, microplastics have spread widely into the air, water, food, and even the human body. Microplastics are categorized into two types: primary and secondary microplastics, originating from plastic waste, industrial wastewater (from paper and plastic recycling industries), and microbeads found in personal care products.
The report reviews dioxin and other POPs contamination in Novopolotsk, a city in Belarus that is the site of an oil reifnery and a plastics (polymers) production facility.
Incineration is an outdated, unsustainable method for waste disposal, as burning waste, especially plastics, produces dangerous air emissions and high amounts of toxic ash
Tuesday, 03 September 2024
A comprehensive new report “Waste incineration and the Environment” released today by Arnika, the Centre for Environment Justice and Development (CEJAD) in Kenya, Centre de Recherche et d‘Education pour le Développement (CREPD) in Cameroon, Toxics Free Australia (TFA), and IPEN finds that burning waste, especially plastics, produces unsustainable and unmanageable hazardous air emissions and large
The fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution (the Plastics Treaty INC-4) established two
