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IPEN’s Role

IPEN’s Role: Ending Toxic Trade

Since its beginnings, IPEN has worked to address the legacy of toxic pollution created by harmful chemicals. Today, IPEN aims to end threats from hazardous waste and the trade in toxic chemicals and waste.

Identifying and Addressing Toxic Waste Sites

From 2004 to 2007, IPEN’s International POPs Elimination Project (IPEP) included several country-based projects to identify and expose threats from industrial areas and other sites contaminated by persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Starting in 2014, IPEN’s International Mercury Treaty Enabling Activities Program similarly included projects on sites contaminated by mercury. In 2015, IPEN’s map demonstrated the global problem of toxic waste contaminated hotspots – an updated map in 2025 shows the ongoing threats from contaminated sites.

2025 Map

Eggs Expose Toxic Threats

By collecting eggs laid by free-range chickens roaming close to waste incinerators and other polluting facilities, IPEN has documented how high levels of toxic chemicals contaminate the environment and the food chain. Since 2005, dozens of IPEN egg studies from five continents have exposed threats from toxic waste disposal sites.

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Mga Kombensiyon sa Basel at Rotterdam

IPEN has decades of experience at the Basel Convention negotiations, advocating for strong measures to protect health and the environment from the hazardous waste trade, and working through the Rotterdam Convention for transparency rules around the trade in toxic chemicals including asbestos and lead chromates, the key pigments used in lead paints.

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Plastics and the Plastic Waste Trade

The global trade in plastics and plastic waste – including e-waste, textiles, plastic waste fuels, and other wastes – creates toxic threats to communities where plastics are dumped, often in low- to middle-income countries. IPEN members around the world have documented threats from the toxic plastic waste trade and from plastic waste dumped in their communities.

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Mga Publikasyon

Tingnan Lahat
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Waste Incineration and the Environment

Malalaking puting sako pang-industriya, ang ilan ay mantsado at kupas, ang nakasalansan sa dalawang hanay sa tabi ng putik na tubig, at makikita pa sa likuran ang mas maraming sako at isang tigang na tanawin.

Mababang Antas ng POPs at mga Teknolohiyang Hindi Sumasailang

Waste Incinerator Ash Poisons the Food Chain

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Dioxins and Global Boundaries

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Toxic Plastics: A Health Threat to the Circular Economy

Basel Ban Amendment Guide

Basel Ban Amendment Guide

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Weak Controls: European E-waste Poisons Africa’s Food Chain

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Toxic Ash Poisons Our Food Chain

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After Incineration: The Toxic Ash Problem (2015 update)

IPEN (International Pollutants Elimination Network)
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