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Toxics Plastic Waste Trade in Bulgaria
Thursday, 20 January 2022 - 2:13pm
Bulgaria is set to transpose the EU directive on single-use plastic (SUP) items as of July 2021 (Directive (EU) 2019/904) and will ban only 8 products of single-use plastics, as listed in the Directive.
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Региональный Бюллетень IPEN в Векца - Декабрь 2021
Thursday, 20 January 2022 - 1:31pm
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UV-328 Research Update
Wednesday, 19 January 2022 - 2:48pm
Recent research on uv-328 further proves its potential to undergo long-range transport, bioaccumulate, and cause harm
Background from this document:
UV-328 is manufactured at annual global production volumes exceeding 1 000 tons (UNEP/POPS/ POPRC.17/4). It is used as a UV absorber, i.e., to protect against degradation from sunlight. It is used in plastics and cosmetics and is part of several consumer products including coating products, adhesives and sealants, sunscreen, food contact materials, and plastics.
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Quick Guide to IPEN Views on POPRC17
Wednesday, 19 January 2022 - 2:36pm
The Seventeenth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutant Research Committee is scheduled to address the following chemicals. See the attached document for IPEN's positions on these issues.
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POPRC-17 Side Event on Endocrine Science EDCs and POPs
Wednesday, 19 January 2022 - 2:22pm
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POPRC17 Flier
Wednesday, 19 January 2022 - 1:56pm

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Lead in Paint
Watchdog Finds Lead in Paints Despite Regulation
EcoWaste Coalition Discovers Excessive Lead Levels in 37 Imported Spray Paints, Urges Government Action to Protect Public Health
Monday, 10 January 2022
Quezon City, Philippines Paint products in aerosol cans containing shocking levels of lead are still offered for sale by offline and online retailers despite the ban on such paints, according to the toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition.
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Job Opening: Communications Director to IPEN

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IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network), is a global network of public interest NGOs working together for a toxics-free future for all. We work for a world in which toxic chemicals and waste are no longer produced or used in ways that harm human health and the environment. IPEN elevates local knowledge into global United Nations policy arenas, to bring about change in developing and transition countries.
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Toxic Recycling
EU Urged to Support Stronger Limits on POPs in Waste
IPEN, Arnika and 16 European NGOs call on leaders to lower threshold values for POPs in waste, which enter recycling and waste exports
Wednesday, 22 December 2021
The problem: the European Commission currently proposes industry friendly ‘middle-ground’ POP limits for waste based on economic criteria instead of strong and health-protective values.
The European Commission (EC) is proposing to adopt new limit values for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in waste. The Stockholm Convention requires the destruction of wastes that exceed POPs limit values (known as Low POP Content Levels set by the Basel Convention) and bans the recycling of wastes contaminated with POPs to maintain toxic-free material cycles. However, the EC is proposing weak POP limits, which will allow plastic and other wastes contaminated with POPs to be, in practice, recycled by industry in the EU. The transition to high-quality and toxic-free material cycles cannot be achieved while allowing POPs recycling in materials.
IPEN, Arnika, and 16 NGOs urge in their letter to Members of the European Parliament and Member States to support stronger limit values for POPs in waste than what the EC proposes. The weak limits currently proposed by the EC undermine the Stockholm Convention and will lead to POPs recycling that is incompatible with the European Green Deal.
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Toxic Recycling
Letter to EU Urging Stronger Limit Values for POPs in Waste
Wednesday, 22 December 2021 - 11:18am
European Commission Proposal for amending Annexes IV and V to the Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants:
An opportunity for the EU to prevent toxic recycling and contamination of the circular economy through the substantial strengthening of limit values for POPs in waste
Civil society comments and briefing for European Union Member States and Members of the European Parliament
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Toxics Plastic Waste Trade in Bulgaria

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UV-328 Research Update

Recent research on uv-328 further proves its potential to undergo long-range transport, bioaccumulate, and cause harm

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Quick Guide to IPEN Views on POPRC17

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POPRC-17 Side Event on Endocrine Science EDCs and POPs

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Watchdog Finds Lead in Paints Despite Regulation

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Letter to EU Urging Stronger Limit Values for POPs in Waste

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