NTN

A network of caring people working towards a toxic-free future for all.

[NTN @oztoxics]

Pesticide breakdown products found in hundreds of US streams https://t.co/4VUPoNVUkO via @cenmag

[The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions @brsmeas]

BREAKING: #POPRC16 adopts draft decision on toxic plastic additive UV-328, confirming it satisfies all criteria as a #POP. More on this chemical:

https://t.co/w6GGnoefMT

Official @UN BRS Press Release will follow.

#GlobalAgreements for a #HealthyPlanet

@rolphpayet @GENetwork

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

Learn about toxic chemical additives in plastics including
UV stabilizers
See @TheEndoSociety IPEN brief

#toxicplastics #POPRC16 @foenCH @NorwayInGeneva @GENetwork @EU_ECHA @HansenB_ECHA @rolphpayet @ChemandWaste @IISD_SDGs @IISDRS @PlasticPollutes
https://t.co/6jLj45Qk27

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

Plastics Poisoning Africa

#PlasticPoison #ToxicPlastics #Dioxin ⁦@CEJADKenya⁩ ⁦@PKairu⁩ ⁦@Greenpeaceafric⁩ ⁦@brkfreeplastic⁩ https://t.co/zvN5kTytXa

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

JUST RELEASED: “Plastics, EDCs & Health”, a new report from IPEN and the Endocrine Society, shows the widespread health effects of #EDCs in #plastics, including cause-and-effect links between additives in plastics & specific impacts to #endocrine systems. https://t.co/qLdKmQtHOA

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

Excellent story on toxic #PFAS in the fashion industry in @voguebusiness featuring insights from Lee Bell, IPEN policy advisor

[NTN @oztoxics]

Arnika - Environmental activists are being arrested in Belarus. Arnika is calling for an end of the persecution https://t.co/9Xvzn2touA

[A Plastic Planet @aplastic_planet]

Oil industry pumping £300bn into producing more plastic despite global moves to slash waste https://t.co/ySMe8ntx4z

[NTN @oztoxics]

Weed-killer glyphosate found in New Zealand’s mānuka honey https://t.co/WZRxj8Dekk via @1NewsNZ

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

The 3rd Time
African Governments
Call on @UNEP
to postpone @brsmeas proposed
June 2020 e-meeting to 2021
noting

- Limited internet access/e-infrastructure #digitalequity
- COVID19 Crisis in Africa in June
- Violation of rules of procedure

Read the Letter https://t.co/Q81iXkYjz3

[NTN @oztoxics]

'Disaster in the making': Industry to decide safe chemicals code https://t.co/JMyx3nnqo6 via @smh

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

“Climate campaigners don’t need to buy shale assets and shut them down because capitalism will do on its own. The question is how quickly that will happen, and who’ll be left holding the losses.” https://t.co/XR9bBVg3fw

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

How to defuse the toxic timebomb of invisible persistent pollutants in our Oceans? See #DevEx blog from Marianne Lloyd Smith and Joanna Immig: https://t.co/WNVggUzd5P
And take a look at IPEN & @oztoxics comprehensive Ocean Pollutants Guide https://t.co/d0qkXWqx2i

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

Totally Toxic
Totally Wasted

BRIEF INTRODUCTION ON PLASTICS
WASTE INCINERATION &
FLY ASH

Learn about the toxic ash from incinerators / #WasteToToxics #WasteToEnergy/ #wasteToClimateCrisis

❇️ https://t.co/oku48UjGcy
❇️
#ToxicPlastics #plasticpollution #BreakFreeFromPlastic

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

Defining plastics as toxic 🚨

“Environment & Climate Change Canada signalled that the government will, indeed, designate plastics as toxic”

#ToxicPlastics ⁦
@ciel_tweets⁩ ⁦@brkfreeplastic⁩ ⁦@ismawati64⁩ ⁦⁦⁦@aplastic_planet⁩ https://t.co/6lRKLddydj

[Baskut Tuncak @baskut_t]

It’s completely false that these pesticides, the worst of the worst, can and likely will be used safely. Simply not true.

https://t.co/7Jb1QYelas

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

Fraud
Chemical/Pesticide Safety Data

“These revelations have major implications for public & environmental health”

“I forged documents; our studies. If the results did not meet expectations, I was asked to improve them”
#Glyphosat @PANGermany @petemyers
https://t.co/xHG9kBUGoI

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

“unequivocal evidence from recent studies that firefighters using aqueous film-forming foams #AFFF have unacceptably elevated levels” of two toxic #PFAS chemicals in their blood”

California Bills Would Ban
‘Forever Chemicals’ in Firefighting Foam 👍

https://t.co/IwYNp0I85f

[IPEN: toxics-free @ToxicsFree]

Pesticides & Cancer

Study revealed links between higher chlordecone (pesticide) concentrations in the blood & prostate #cancer

In 2018, the highest prostate cancer rates in the world were in Guadeloupe & Martinique
https://t.co/J0Mx2s542t

[Olga Speranskaya @OlgaSperansk]

Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' is one of the most polluted places in America. For years, residents have suffered from illnesses, but they've been unable to prove a causal connection between industry and the health effects #RightToTruth #environmentalracism https://t.co/ls738trL8V