BFFP Newsletter 🌍📰: Some Halloween Treats! New resources out now.

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October 31, 2024

Energy Transfer pipeline burning near the residential community of Deer Park / La Porte, Texas, U.S. (Photo: Fenceline Watch)

Photo credit: Mohd Rasfan / AFP via Getty Images

EIA’s New Crime Tracker for Illegal Plastic Waste Trade

#BreakFreeFromPlastic member, the Environmental Investigation Agency, is expanding resources to help civil society address waste trade crimes. Introducing the new Global Environmental Crime Tracker, an open-source platform offering intelligence to monitor and report illegal plastic waste shipments. The latest EIA report, Dirty Deals, accompanies the tracker, uncovering major illegal activities in the UK’s plastic waste trade and exposing regulatory gaps that enable these practices globally.

Read the report

microplastic pollution entering the brain

Shiv Srivastava with Fenceline Watch reports live from the scene of the Energy Transfer pipeline explosion and fire near Houston, Texas, U.S. (Photo: Fenceline Watch)

New Resource: Africa Plastic Policy Factsheet | An Overview of Recent Research on Plastic Pollution in Africa.

Africa is extremely challenged by the social, economic, and environmental impacts of the plastic pollution crisis. This living factsheet highlights key resources, statistics, and case studies to illustrate the extent of the crisis on the continent. It is intended to provide a snapshot into existing research on plastic pollution in Africa in recent years. Document also available in French.

Read the factsheet

Webinar: Plastic Pollution and its Health Impacts

As we near the fifth round of negotiations for a global plastics treaty (INC5), learn more about the impacts of plastic on human health and the environment in this webinar series.

Toxic Chemicals Could Be the Scariest Thing About Your Halloween Costume

Halloween costumes are the ultimate ultra-fast fashion. These are designed, quite literally, to be worn once. By the following year, the pop-culture reference is stale, and the flimsy polyester is in the landfill.

Break Free From Plastic member Center for Environmental Health has found substances such as lead, cadmium and BPA in costume pieces that “would have exceeded the amount deemed by [California] to require a warning”, says CEH science lead Mihir Vohra.

Sign the Plastics Treaty Petition

In a month, the fifth and final round of Plastics Treaty negotiations is happening in Busan, Korea. The emerging instrument should hold polluting corporations and plastic-producing countries accountable for the profound harm to human rights, human health, ecosystems, and economies arising from the production, deployment, and disposal of plastics.

Sign the Plastics Treaty petition to demand world leaders to deliver a strong and ambitious Plastics Treaty.

Sign the Plastics Treaty petition

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