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IPEN contributes to global environmental agreements and national policy development to end threats to health and the environment from toxic trade and hazardous waste and advocates for enforcement of a global ban on the toxic waste trade. IPEN members from five continents have documented risks from waste incineration and landfills, testing free-range chicken eggs collected near these waste disposal sites for toxic chemicals. IPEN also calls for the use of non-combustion technologies as safer alternatives to burning waste.

Transparency in trade is lacking, and double standards are ongoing, in which some countries restrict the use of toxic chemicals within their borders but continue to export those chemicals, threatening the health of people in recipient countries. IPEN advocates for stronger controls, greater transparency, and works to expose and end these dangerous double standards.

As plastics production escalates, the plastic waste trade is growing, including exporting plastic waste as fuel. Often referred to as refuse-derived fuels (RDF), IPEN advocates for global classification of RDF as hazardous waste and calls for an end to this dangerous plastic waste trade. IPEN also aims to expose the hidden plastic waste trade and calls for increased transparency to end dumping of waste plastics.