Thanks for pushing forward for a #PlasticsTreaty. I've been following the negotiations since #INC1. takvera.blogspot.com/search/label...
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🚨 40 million metric tons of #plastics produced during all five weeks of #INC1 #INC2 #INC3 #INC4 #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty negotiations!
🚨 2 million metric tons of #plasticpollution entered the #environment during all five weeks of #INC1 #INC2 #INC3 #INC4 #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty negotiations!
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"Recycling without waste pickers is garbage." @TrashForPeace #INC1 #plasticstreaty #plasticspollution "We demand a just transition." Health studies. Support. The meaningful inclusion of impacted stakeholders. Safer plastics. Safer mechanical recycling. No false tech fast-fixes.
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Dear @UNEP IT folks broadcasting the mtg via YouTube, and all those reporting out from #plasticstreaty #INC1 #plasticsINC, so appreciate the chance to "listen in" and learn from afar. Very grateful. Hang in -- another long day/night. @ciel @IISD_ENB @brkfreeplastic @ToxicsFree
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Further, given lack of info re: chemical composition of plastics, shipments of plastics waste are NOT in compliance with the Basel Convention (@brsmeas) -- calls for a database of all polymers, and additives in use as a baseline requirement. @BaselAction #inc1 #plasticstreaty
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"Info about chemicals related to health and safety of humans and environments must not be regarded as confidential... Not only is this information a basic human right but it is a prerequisite for progress." @BaselAction #plasticstreaty #INC1
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The healthcare sector -- organized via @NoHarmAsia @HCWHGlobal @HCWHeurope -- has shown that even within medicine, it is possible to reduce the use of unnecessary plastics, to implement select safe reuse. Need better info to further detoxify plastics. #plasticstreaty #inc1
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"Recycling only delays final disposal but does not prevent it." Also mentioned 🤯research has found microplastics in incinerator ash and emissions. @GAIAnoburn intervention at #PlasticsTreaty #INC1 12/1/2022
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"The plastics treaty is a global public health treaty." @leotrasande's powerful intervention for @TheEndoSociety -- transcribing the WHOLE THING now. #PlasticsTreaty #inc1 #plasticsinc
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"What needs to be cleaned up is [plastic] production itself." via @washingtonpost #INC1 #PlasticsTreaty #plasticsINC
Read more here from @jtickner & colleagues:...
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Dear #PlasticsTreaty #Inc1 -- did you know that preproduction plastics pellets found in the environment were featured on the cover of @ScienceMagazine in 1974? Nineteen seventy-four! cc @MonicaMedinaDC
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Did you know? communities along the Mississippi (AKA #CancerAlley) began their week+ long walk from Baton Rouge to NOLA to protest pollution from petrochemical/plastics production back in the 1980s? 4 decades later, let's get to a just #plasticstreaty #inc1 via @librarycongress
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Need good plastics history sources? Here you go, 24 pages of good sources, all of which went toward the writing of -- #plasticstreaty #INC1...
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Lessons from history: plastics grew in part, but NOT WHOLLY based on functionality or performance. Plastics bloomed through war contracts, nat'l (public) $$$, tech transfer, tax subsidies, loans, marketing, lobbying & more. #plasticstreaty #INC1 Source:...
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Before pinning hopes on bioplastics, impt to learn from their history: an ahistorical technological fix such as swapping in alternative (bio-based) carbon sources then as now won’t improve plastics' ethics, safety, or sustainability. #inc1 #PlasticsTreaty...
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Here, ✨ @mrMattSimon on the #PlasticsTreaty #inc1 mtgs — his estimate of ann plastic production— using Geyer 2020 data) —when converted from Mt to pounds was so staggering I couldn’t comprehend it — we are approaching 1 T pounds of plastics per YEAR....
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🚨“The only plastic that never becomes waste is the one we never make.” Roland Geyer (2020) — updates Geyer, @JambeckResearch & @klavlaw figure re: total plastic production —1950-2017 🚨9.2 B metric tons 🚨 mass = to 88B blue 🐳 or 1.2 B 🐘 #PlasticsTreaty #INC1 Also👇 @DrSCoffin
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Orange, TX, will be the site for ANOTHER 4.4 billion pounds of PE via a joint venture formed by Chevron Phillips Chemical & QatarEnergy. Adding to 3.5 B pound facility newly operational in Appalachia/western PA. #INC1 #plasticstreaty...
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Since the 1970s, recycling has been promoted to sop up #plasticpollution— it has only gotten worse. Now calls for so-called “advanced recycling.” But no mop tech can address the extent of toxicity, global health, justice issues. #PlasticsTreaty #inc1 /end...
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Dear @MonicaMedinaDC, were the 🛁 overflowing, were the flood💧’s knee-deep, none among us would reach for a mop — nor invest in inventing a better mop — a so-called “advanced” mop — w/o 1st turning off the tap, grasping the extent of the damage. 1/2 #INC1...
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