Quezon City. To mark the first anniversary of the Global Framework on Chemicals – For a Planet Free of Harm from Chemicals and Waste, or GFC, environmental health groups called on duty-bearers, governments and intergovernmental organizations in particular, to hasten the development of GFC’s implementation guidelines and plans, and to ensure adequate funding to get the policy framework rolling at all levels.
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.
In today's world, our homes are increasingly filled with a myriad of chemicals and toxins that can have profound impacts on the health and development of our little ones. It is up to women to take the lead in identifying and eliminating these hidden dangers to create a true haven for our children.
On the First Anniversary of The Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC), global stakeholders call for the urgent establishment of the Global Alliance on Highly Hazardous Pesticides.
On 30th September last year, the international community took a landmark decision to endorse the formation of a Global Alliance on Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs), with the goal of prioritizing effective measures to phase out their use in agriculture.
Quezon City, Philippines/ Bangkok, Thailand. Environmental health organizations Ecological Waste Coalition of the Philippines (EcoWaste Coalition) and Ecological Alert and Recovery – Thailand (EARTH) commended the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Thailand for its action to stop the production and trade of 12 skincare cosmetics contaminated with mercury.
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Incineration is an outdated, unsustainable method for waste disposal, as burning waste, especially plastics, produces dangerous air emissions and high amounts of toxic ash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
