Incineration is an outdated, unsustainable method for waste disposal, as burning waste, especially plastics, produces dangerous air emissions and high amounts of toxic ash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
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 amounts of highly toxic solid residues (ash), concluding that alternatives to incineration should
Quezon City. The toxics watchdog group EcoWaste Coalition has requested the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to convene a multi-stakeholder summit to tackle the persistent trade of mercury cosmetics across the country.
The group put forward the proposal through a letter submitted today to FDA Director General Dr. Samuel Zacate and FDA CCHUHSRR Director Engr. Ana Rivera by Aileen Lucero, National Coordinator of the EcoWaste Coalition, an environmental health group that has been tracking mercury cosmetics since 2011.
Yuyun will join Co-Chair Pamela Miller as Tadesse Amera Steps Down
Wednesday, 14 August 2024
See Pamela Miller's tribute to Tadesse and welcome to Yuyun here.
Yuyun Ismawati, a dedicated Indonesian national with over thirty years of work in advocacy for environmental health and for strong policies on chemicals and waste, has been elected as IPEN Co-Chair, the key leadership position in the global network. Yuyun, who received the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize in 2009 for her groundbreaking work on reducing pollution and waste, will share chairing responsibilities with Co-Chair Pamela Miller of Alaska Community Action on Toxics. IPEN, a network of over 600 public interest environmental health groups in more than 125 countries, works to eliminate threats to health and the environment from the world’s most harmful chemicals, with the goal of a toxics-free future for all.
Words cannot adequately express the significance of Tadesse’s past six years as Co-Chair of IPEN. He is a shining star and global leader who is selflessly and earnestly dedicated to protecting our beautiful, fragile world. Tadesse is wise, compassionate, and a consummate diplomat.
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
