Costas Velis

Deeply into research and innovation for #plasticpollution, recovering resources from #waste, #circulareconomy, inclusive/ informal recycling.

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

Official opening of #INC2 - Here all together to fight #plasticpollution and enable an equitable evidence-based informed by #science implementable #plastics #treaty via #circulareconomy Let’s turn #research into #action @UniLeedsGlobal

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

@therese_my @edrcook And this is what our Nature paper does: generates new insights, quantified, with super detailed methodology, all code, data, methods in the public domain via open science. And we fight for disclosure and transparency -we need reliable data: https://t.co/9Oef18abPZ

[Ed Cook @edrcook]

@down2earthindia Thanks to @down2earthindia for such a clear and detailed presentation of our research - including its limitations - we are grateful for your positive contribution and dissemination of our work @CostasVelis @Joshcottom

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

@edrcook @therese_my As I mentioned before, I do invite you to consider the evidence together. Ultimately, we need quantifiable evidence - numbers!!

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

@therese_my 2. Plastic / waste transboundary movement phenomena are complex. We have been studying them for over a decade. Would be great have better estimates for all flows and fates of imports. I invite anyone interested to jointly look at the evidence.

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

@therese_my 1. As academics we are open to any criticism - I have personally alerted the world to the unsustainable plastic exports - and fought for it.

As a result the EC plastics strategy and regulations changed - so totally paradoxical to be accused of waste colonialism bias…

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

@andersen_inger thanks for your leadership - not just making the case - citing numbers of our model on informal waste workers’ contribution to plastics recycling! We need a science-based approach @ScientistsCoa @LeedsUniEng @UniversityLeeds @edrcook @Joshcottom #INC4 #PlasticPollution

[Inger Andersen @andersen_inger]

Today, 20 million waste pickers across the world collect 60% of all our plastic waste.

They are the unsung heroes helping to keep our communities clean, protect nature & provide jobs.

A pleasure to see @globalrec_org again & hear their perspectives on what #INC4 must deliver.

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

@michaelgwebster @UniLeedsGlobal We together fight #plasticpollution @michaelgwebster - the Project STOP in Indonesia has been breaking new ground in this direction - loads of learning to be fed into the #plasticsINC #PlasticsTreaty process

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

Official opening of #INC2 - Here all together to fight #plasticpollution and enable an equitable evidence-based informed by #science implementable #plastics #treaty via #circulareconomy Let’s turn #research into #action @UniLeedsGlobal

[Inger Andersen @andersen_inger]

Great to engage with civil society stakeholders to #PlasticsINC. We are in a race against time to negotiate and finalise an ambitious global agreement to #BeatPlasticPollution.

Strong civil society engagement is vital to elevate ambition & deliver a just transition for all.

[Prof. Richard C Thompson OBE FRS @ProfRThompson]

Very powerful opening address to #INC2 from ⁦@UNEP⁩ ⁦@andersen_inger⁩ on what is needed for a future without the blight of plastic pollution, clear messages to eliminate unnecessary plastics, and to focus on upstream solutions

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

#PlasticsINC UNEP Executive Director states explicitly that #InformalRecyclingSector should be part of solution to #plasticpollution Fully in support! https://t.co/nWbAj0Kd8S @UniLeedsGlobal @UniversityLeeds @wateratleeds

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

#INC2 President #Macron states global determination for a solution to #plasticpollution. States that only 15% of Plastics is currently recycled - as of the #OECD Global Plastics Outlook

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

@ProfRThompson Great moment Richard! Go for it! Happy to catch up whenever suits you here in Paris

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

@gselim74 @LeedsUniEng @Arch_Urbanism @LeedsUniCivil Congs!!

[UK in Greece @ukingreece]

The discussions took place with the participation of 🇬🇷 and 🇬🇧 academics and representatives from 🇬🇷 environmental NGOs.

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#marinepollution

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[Mike Webster @michaelgwebster]

Sitting on an Indonesian ferry thinking about plastic pollution. What can be collected? What, given its format and composition, must be simply designed out?

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

@ProfRThompson Congs!!

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

@michaelgwebster @KathyWillis_ @michaelgwebster Exactly - extra #financial #resources entering the #SWM #system should enable also outlets for less #recyclable #plastics

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

@DrLeonBlack @edrcook Sheer pleasure @DrLeonBlack - hopefully our small contribution to the literature here can cast light in the nature and magnitude of #constructon and #demoletion #waste #risks in the #GlobalSouth

[Costas Velis @CostasVelis]

@AdamRead74 @suezUK @CIWM @CEC_LDN @DrResources Hopefully we can move to a #circulareconomy in which all sectors and stages involved can appropriate value equitably! #waste and #resourcerecovery sector knowledge is critical to this