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Решение обостряющегося кризиса пластикового загрязнения в пяти странах ВЕКЦА
Transparency and traceability of chemicals in plastic products are in the draft treaty text
Комментарии сосредоточены на юридически обязательных глобально согласованных требованиях к прозрачности и отслеживаемости химической информации в пластиковых изделиях
Comments focus on legally binding globally harmonized requirements on chemical information transparency and traceability in plastic products
Canada should complete the disclosure and transparency regime throughout the value chain for toxic additives in plastics to ensure tracking and reporting.
We need a global plastics treaty that protects the health and well-being of all people – including Indigenous Peoples, frontline and fenceline communities and workers
Подход, основанный на оценке опасности, – наиболее эффективный метод защиты здоровья от токсичных химических веществ в пластике
A hazard-based approach is the only viable and most effective method for safeguarding health from toxic chemicals in plastics
Suggested new indicators for targets B2 and B3 will help identify success and failure in achieving the objectives of information sharing about chemicals in materials and products.
Restricted access for civil society is a no-go.
The primary outcome of IINC 4 discussion was the decision to hold two intersessional meetings between now and INC5
Делегаты активно обсуждают различные положения проекта договора, включая вопросы сокращения производства первичных полимеров, критерии дизайна товаров из пластика, содержание токсичных веществ и полимеров в пластике.
Важным вопросом повестки дня переговоров станет создание списка токсичных химических веществ, которые должны быть запрещены или жестко ограничены в пластике.
Delegates discuss various provisions of the draft treaty, including reducing virgin polymer production, design criteria for plastic products, and plastic chemicals and polymers of concern.
Дискуссия прошла 15 апреля в режиме онлайн. Основой для дискуссии стала презентация Ольги Сперанской о возможных способах фиксации международного обязательства государств о доступе к информации
Disclosure of chemicals in plastic materials leads to a toxic-free circular economy.
Which is better: a treaty with low ambition or no treaty?
Что лучше: договор с низкими амбициями или полное отсутствие договора?
Toxicity throughout the life cycle of plastics affects our health, leading to infertility and irreversible disorders, particularly in women.
Стойкие органические загрязнители и другие токсичные добавки в пластике: регулирование в рамках международных соглашений.
Несмотря на первоначальный пессимизм, на МКП2 по Договору о пластике были согласованы некоторые критические моменты, которые позволят продвинуть процесс вперед.
Despite initial pessimism, at INC2 on Plastics Treaty agreed on some critical points that will move the process forward.
A transparency mechanism, with a traceability requirement, will ensure that the disclosed information is linked to individual materials and products, and can be tracked throughout their life cycles.
Civil society organisations, indigenous peoples, women, vulnerable communities should have the right to participate in Plastic Treaty negotiations
Новое соглашение по пластмассам может стать первым глобальным соглашением, включающим согласованные юридически обязывающие требования к прозрачности информации о химических веществах и полимерах, используемых в пластмассах.
The German Exit Plastik NGO coalition disucsses plastic in the circular economy with parliamentarians and ministerial representatives.
NGOs call on Canada to Expand the Single-Use Plastics Ban
The identity of chemicals and polymers of particular concern should be disclosed throughout the entire lifecycle of plastics.
Неправительственные организации поддерживают такой глобальный договор по пластику, который рассматривает пластик как материал, наполненный токсичными химическими веществами и ставит во главу угла здоровье человека и его право жить в безопасной и здоровой окружающей среде.
The treaty should address plastic pollution and waste and the health problems created by the chemicals in plastics as they are produced, used, recycled, discarded or incinerated as waste.
Canada’s online survey about the global plastics treaty
Раскрытие информации о химических компонентах пластика способствует сокращению пластикового загрязнения, повышению эффективности использования ресурсов за счет безотходной многооборотной экономики и продвигает право общественности на информацию.
To support an effective circular economy, the recycling strategy for Canada should require the use of a single recyclability label for plastic products that will ensure all product components are toxic-free and are safe for recycling.
Chemical transparency is needed to ensure the effectiveness of the Basel Convention implementation.
The GMTS is a step towards global safety of human health and the environment and stricter regulation or even a complete phase-out of hazardous chemicals.
NGOs wrote a letter to the EU Commission about crucial votes on restriction of lead in PVC, Resorcinol as and ED and the ban of lead chromates in paints.
It’s time to act now to collectively address the problem of plastic pollution crisis.
#WeChooseReuse – Einwegplastik durch Mehrwegsysteme ersetzen und diese Petition zeichnen.
HEJ Support Co-director Olga Speranskaya speaks at webinar on plastic pollution in the Great Lakes.
HEJSupport, among other NGOs, sent a letter to the EU Commission to support the most recent version of the SUP Directive Guidelines.
Consumers deserve to be told the truth. There is a need for mandatory full disclosure of the presence of toxic substances in products
For UNEA5 several NGOs, including HEJSupport, submit a written statement for the Leadership Dialogue.
An efficient e-waste management is based on government commitment; regulatory requirements and enforcement; a social orientation towards separate waste collection; and environment and health protection through safe toxic-free product design and transparency of chemical information.
HEJSupport cosigned a joint NGO letter to the Environment Ministers of the EU Member States urging them to take a decisive stand against plastic waste –hazardous to human health and the environment.
The NGO discussion paper recommends objectives to be included in the Canadian approach to plastic.
Gemeinsam mit acht weiteren NGOs hat HEJSupport einen offenen Brief verfasst.
Microplastics account for approximately 40% of all plastic that ends up in the ocean.
Several NGOs, including HEJSupport, published a BAN (Basel Action Network) press release, denouncing Europe`s “Do As I Say, Not As I Do”.
Recycled plastics can contain some of the world’s most hazardous chemicals. It is time we put an end to this toxic policy.
HEJSupport together with Women`s Voices for the Earth and Women Environmental Network hosted a webinar on plastic- and toxic-free menstruation products. You can find the presentations here.
HEJSupport announces a new project on toxic chemicals, health, and plastic pollution. The project entitled “Plastic and Toxic Free Period” is supported by Funding for Social Change Ltd and is part of a broad initiative on plastic and toxic free disposable and reusable menstrual products.
We are happy to announce the launch of a new website, www.ptfperiod.info
Our new website is designed to inform people who menstruate about plastic and toxic chemicals in hygienic products, their health and environmental effects, and the availability of more sustainable, plastic and toxic free options on the market. The site involves global perspectives and provides a platform for NGOs and individuals to share their stories, activities and good practice examples.
HEJSupport raised the problems of dirty plastic recycling, plastic chemicals in hygiene products, and the impact of single use plastic.
NGOs urge the Canadian government to improve on sound e-waste management by ratifing the Basel amendment and support the Norwegian proposal on plastic waste.
November 28, 2018 – A national Strategy on Zero Plastic Waste was presented jointly by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Health Canada (HC) at a multistakeholder workshop on Canadian chemicals management plan in Ottawa. The vision of the Strategy is to keep all plastics in the economy.
In the last months three EECCA region countries, Georgia, Moldova and Kyrgyzstan, strive for regulations to ban plastic products.