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Over 150 organizations and individuals, including food and beverage companies, chemical companies, industry associations, and members of the European Parliament, released a statement earlier this month calling for a ban on oxo-degradable plastic packaging until further research and testing can be done. The term oxo-degradable plastics, in general, refers to conventional plastic that contains chemical additives intended to accelerate the degradation of the material under the action of UV light and/or heat, and oxygen. More specifically, the statement recommends applying the precautionary principle with respect to oxo-degradable plastic packaging “until extensive, independent third-party research and testing based on international standards (as used by ISO, CEN and ASTM), possibly combined with technological progress and innovation, clearly confirms sufficient biodegradation of the plastic fragments in different environments, and over a time-scale short enough for particles not to accumulate in ecosystems.”
Today, the third conference of the UN Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) started in Cape Town. Parliamentary State Secretary Rita Scharzelühr-Sutter attended the conference on behalf of the Federal Environment Ministry. High-ranking representatives from politics, industry, the public, science and UN organisations discusse...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) reintroduced the Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act, a bipartisan bill that would establish a national mercury monitoring network to protect human health, s...
This report provides a summary of the discussions at the “Global Forum on Environment: Plastics in a Circular Economy – Design of Sustainable Plastics from aChemicals Perspective” that took place on 29-31 May 2018 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The workshop was organised in co-operation between the OECD Joint Meeting of the Chemicals Com...
Electronic waste (or e-waste) refers to waste arising from end-of-life electrical and electronic appliances (EEA) such as computers and mobile phones. The total value of all the raw material present in e-waste generated in India in 2016 has been estimated to be about Rs 2 lakh crore. So, whose responsibility is to manage e-waste in our country? It&...
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