Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, is about to start ( 28 November – 2 December 2022) in Punta del Este, Uruguay.

EASD is participating virtually, starting on November 26 with participation at Multi-stakeholder Forum of INC-1 . The Forum aims to facilitate the exchange of information and gather perspectives from different stakeholders across the plastics life cycle and is open to all stakeholders, including governments, the private sector working on different stages of the plastics life cycle, scientists and researchers, the finance sector, civil society groups, including the informal sector, indigenous people, and youth.

EASD is associated with IPEN ; IPEN has been working on toxics in the life cycle of plastics for many years, including initial work on dioxins in the Stockholm Convention, and then scaling up with more explicit work related to POPs in plastics in the Stockholm Convention, as well as Chemicals in Products and Hazardous Substances in the Life Cycle of Electronic Products in the SAICM process. IPEN’s toxic plastics work has escalated and evolved especially over the last 5 years.