The Arctic's Plastic Crisis (2024) Report A new report from Alaska Community Action on Toxics and IPEN finds that chemicals, plastics, and climate change are interrelated and threaten Arctic Peoples and lands. These forces have combined to poison lands, waters, and traditional foods of Arctic Indigenous Peoples, with ongoing health effects that threaten their cultures and communities.
Clean-ups or cleanwashing? How plastic pollution cleanup technology can actually harm the environment and obstruct policy progress (2023) Briefing Paper Plastic clean-ups have proliferated in response to the growing plastic crisis. Such clean-ups may involve large-scale unsupervised methods of plastic collection that do not discriminate between aquatic life, plastic and organic matter. As a result, the rise of these plastic cleanup technologies has raised red flags in civil society and academia.
Oceans - The Mystery of the Missing Plastic (2016) Film Plastic never deteriorates, it simply breaks down into smaller and smaller particles that are invisible to the human eye. In this investigation, scientists search for the microplastic in the ocean. Small, mostly invisible, toxic, it has found a new home: the plastisphere.
Underwater dumps: the plastic siege on biodiversity (2022) Report This report reviews the damage to various types of biogenic habitats, lists international obligations to protect those with the greatest biodiversity or fragility, and outlines actions that can be taken locally to complement policies aimed at stemming the flow of waste at the source.
Convention on Plastic Pollution - Plastic Treaty Essential Elements: Reporting and Monitoring (2022) Position Paper This part of the Plastic Treaty Essential Elements series explains why a good reporting and monitoring framework is so important for the new international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution, and what it should look like.
UNEA Resolution 5/14 entitled “End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument” (2022) UNEP-Programme The official document of resolution 5/14 "End plastic pollution: towards an international legally binding instrument", adopted by the United Nations Environment Assembly on 2 March 2022.
Neglected: Environmental Justice Impacts of Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution (2021) Report This report directly responds to the UNEA resolution 2/11. It aims to clarify the interlinkages between environmental justice and plastic pollution, and also examines impacts of plastic pollution on people’s rights and health.
Refill App The free Refill app taps into a global network of places to reduce, reuse and refill: 300,000 Refill stations, offering refills for water, coffee, food containers and plastic-free shopping.
Exposed: Amazon‘s enormous and rapidly growing plastic pollution problem (2021) Study The study shows Amazon’s pandemic-fueled boom in plastic pollution, its futile recycling pledges, and the real solutions the company can implement to stop flooding our oceans with plastic.
An Introduction to Plastics & Toxic Chemicals (2022) Study How plastics harm human health and the environment and poison the circular economy.