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Microplastics: Common Questions & Research Underway
MICROPLASTICS: COMMON QUESTIONS & RESEARCH UNDERWAY Chemical recycling technologies have the potential to dramatically increase the types and amount of plastics that can be recycled. A global agreement on plastics should help enable a circular economy, which can minimize the flow of plastic waste – including microplastics – into our environment. What are microplastics? Microplastics… Read more
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GPPC Video: How Are Global Companies Innovating to Reduce Plastic Pollution?
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Cleaning Up Plastic Pollution: What Works?
What We’re For: The best solution to address pollution of any solid waste is to prevent it from entering the environment in the first place through adequate waste management systems. In the absence of this, the global plastics industry continues to support and participate in plastic pollution cleanup projects. We’ve found these activities are most… Read more
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Plastics Additives Report Fact Sheet
PLASTICS ADDITIVES REPORT FACT SHEET UNEP’s Chemicals in Plastics Report (2023) sought to document the reportedly “often-overlooked chemical-related issues of plastic pollution, particularly their adverse impacts on humn health and the nevironment as well as on resource efficiency and circularity”. The UNEP report was followed in Marhc 2024 by the ‘PlastChem’ report, published with funding… Read more
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GPPC Video – Who Supports a Global Plastics Agreement?
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GPPC Video – Reducing Plastic Pollution
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GPPC Video – Improving Recycling Rates
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GPPC Video – Making Sustainable Change
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ICCA Webinar Recordings: Design to Decision: Circular Solutions to Prevent Plastic Pollution
Watch the recording of ICCA’s webinar, Design to Decision: Circular Solutions to Prevent Plastic Pollution held on 21 August 2024. Topics covered by the distinguished speakers include: Watch BASF’s Bernhard von Vacano, Ph.D, discuss how product design can enable plastics circularity, with examples of products designed for circularity. Read more
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ICCA Webinar: Promoting Sound Management of Chemicals in Plastics Globally and Nationally
Watch the recording of the International Council of Chemical Association’s (ICCA) webinar, Promoting Sound Management of Chemicals in Plastics Globally and Nationally held on 31 July 2024. Topics covered by the distinguished speakers include: Watch Dr. Antony (Tony) Williams, Cheminformaticion with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provide a demonstration of two publicly available tools… Read more