Championing environmental health and justice by ending toxic trade, catalyzing a toxics-free future, and campaigning for everyone’s right to a clean environment
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1 May 2024
🚨The latest edition of the Plastic Waste Trade Watch newsletter is out! Check it out for details about our takeaways from INC-4, the latest trends in the waste trade, and more!
Read it here: conta.cc/3xXd5DY
Sign up for next month: bit.ly/3NE4oTo
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📢 NEW: 196 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have registered to participate for the critical #INC4 #PlasticsTreaty talks in Ottawa.
That’s more participants than the entire EU delegation, scientists, and Indigenous Peoples.
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25 Apr 2024
The second day of #INC4 negotiations for a #PlasticsTreaty has consisted of contact group and subgroup discussions. Here are #BreakFreeFromPlastic highs ✅ lows ❌as well as the key stories from today: 🧵 @UNEP
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22 Apr 2024
During #PlasticsTreaty talks, Wong Pui Yi with @BaselAction shares #WasteColonialism report with Hiroshi Ono, Ministry of the Environment 🇯🇵 - READ: c4center.org/policy-brief-en….
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22 Apr 2024
At "Asia in Focus" multi-stakeholder event, Arm Punyathorn w @ejfoundation & Wong Pui Yi w @BaselAction talk about impact of #WasteTrade in SEA, call on 🇯🇵 to stop waste exports to 🇲🇾 and highlight need of a #PlasticsTreaty that cuts plastic production 🚫🏭 -📹 Rahyang Nusantara
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22 Apr 2024
Happy Earth Day!🌎🇨🇦 BAN's Jim Puckett and Pui Yi Wong stand with @GordJohns as he calls for a motion to close loopholes that allow Canada to export plastic waste through the US to developing countries. Watch the full press conference here: bit.ly/3w3LZKH
22 Apr 2024
This morning I stood with @SurfriderCanada @BaselAction and @OceanLegacy_ca to urge @s_guilbeault to take action to end plastic pollution, once and for all. The world can’t wait any longer.
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22 Apr 2024
This morning I stood with @SurfriderCanada @BaselAction and @OceanLegacy_ca to urge @s_guilbeault to take action to end plastic pollution, once and for all. The world can’t wait any longer.
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15 Apr 2024
Jim Puckett of @BaselAction emphasizes that the logic of waste trade works with current rules to externalize costs because our current system fails to account for some of the most serious costs of doing business – costs to #environment and #humanhealth.
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15 Apr 2024
Asked about how #PlasticsTreaty can cover gaps of #BaselConvention, Jim Puckett of @BaselAction emphasizes:
- Strengthened BC mandate to qualify hazardous additives as hazardous waste
- Ensured transparency of additives used among companies through the treaty to be picked by BC
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15 Apr 2024
"We send them vitamins, they send us toxic waste."
Sedat Gündoğdu traces the origins of the book -- the only technical book on plastic waste trade -- as its editor, taking a deep look into the relationship between #WasteTrade, #pollution, colonialism & #environmental injustice.
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15 Apr 2024
🌎🌍🌏🗓️Webinar Today April 15 in 45 minutes worldwide! Register and join at the link below: tiny.cc/GEN15Apr24
15 Apr 2024
Taking place soon at 15:00 CEST!
Join the launch of the new book which discusses the role of the #PlasticsTreaty in addressing #PlasticWaste Trade issues & deliberates ways to end #WasteColonialism.
▶️ tiny.cc/GEN15Apr24
📺 youtube.com/watch?v=wVF4H9Hq…
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11 Apr 2024
How can #PlasticsTreaty negotiations address the problems inherent to the #PlasticWaste #trade?
Join this #GENeva #BeatPlasticPollution Dialogue to discuss the newly published book "Plastic Waste Trade".
📅15 April 24, 15:00 - 16:30 CEST
▶️ tiny.cc/GEN15Apr24
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3 Apr 2024
🗓️Join us for an online webinar on 4/15 hosted by @GENetwork to launch "Plastic Waste Trade: A New Colonialist Means of Pollution Transfer" featuring Jim Puckett of BAN, @S_Gundogdu01, @KristaShennum, @JPetrlik, @Magdalenadonoso, and more. Register at the link below! 🌐🌏🌍🌎
3 Apr 2024
Join this #GENeva #BeatPlasticPollution Dialogue that will launch the new book discussing the role of the #PlasticsTreaty in addressing #PlasticWaste Trade issues & ways to end #WasteColonialism.
📅 15 April 24, 15:00 - 16:30 CEST
▶️ tiny.cc/GEN15Apr24
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3 Apr 2024
Join this #GENeva #BeatPlasticPollution Dialogue that will launch the new book discussing the role of the #PlasticsTreaty in addressing #PlasticWaste Trade issues & ways to end #WasteColonialism.
📅 15 April 24, 15:00 - 16:30 CEST
▶️ tiny.cc/GEN15Apr24
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3 Apr 2024
📣 BIG NEWS!
The Council of the European Union unanimously adopted the much-needed revision of the waste shipment regulation, setting ambitious rules to tackle waste trade head-on.
Check out this press release for more information: rethinkplasticalliance.eu/ne…
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3 Apr 2024
Another webinar and report launch TOMORROW 4/4 (tonight 4/3 for West Coast US 🦉) with @C4Center on the plastic waste trade between Japan and Malaysia. Register with the link below!
Join our online report launch and panel discussion where we share our findings on the question of plastic waste recycling between Malaysia and Japan, the challenges in governing the plastic waste trade. Scan the QR code or visit the URL to register: bit.ly/PlasticWasteTradeWebi…
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29 Mar 2024
‼️‼️ safe the date
CIEL’s WEBINAR on consensus and other obstructionist tactics used during negotiations
#PlasticsTreaty
🗓️ April 11, 2024
🕰️ 10:30am ET/4:30pm CET
REGISTER: us02web.zoom.us/j/8289824574…
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2 Apr 2024
The fourth round of Plastics Treaty negotiations must establish a strong conflict of interest policy and kick the polluters out!
Learn more about the #PlasticsTreaty 👇
breakfreefromplastic.org/pla…
#BreakFreeFromPlastic
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28 Mar 2024
🚨The latest edition of the Plastic Waste Trade Watch newsletter is out! Check it out for details about our upcoming webinar on 4/15, the latest trends in the waste trade, and more!
Read it here: conta.cc/3xemFC6
Sign up for next month: bit.ly/3NE4oTo
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