Tag: waste

LONDON: Negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty are stuck in limbo, but new research by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) indicates alternative ways forward to both lower plastics production and circumvent the petrostates and vested interests holding the process hostage. After several rounds of talks beginning in 2022, progress by the UN’s Intergovernmental Negotiating […]

Submission by the EIA in response to the Basel Convention Secretariat’s request for comments on the plastic waste amendments and possible further activities that could be conducted on plastic waste.

Has the world woken up to the threat of environmental crime? The outcome of several days of dialogue in Vienna this week raises more questions than answers. More than 100 states, represented by hundreds of delegates, met at the United Nations to negotiate the global response to environmental crime as part of a Second Meeting […]

Would you feel comfortable feeding your family with food wrapped in plastic made from uncontrolled waste streams? Do we really want children’s toys or baby bottles made from recycled plastic whose chemical history cannot be reliably traced and so might contain ‘forever chemicals’ and other hazardous additives? These are not abstract questions. In the coming […]

Submission by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) in response to the Basel convention secretariat’s information request on textiles EIA is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with more than 40 years of experience investigating environmental crime and supporting effective policy development and implementation at the international, regional and national levels, including the Basel Convention and the European […]

The story of textile waste is not just about discarded clothes – it’s about a global system that shifts the burden of pollution from rich nations to poorer ones under the guise of charity and recycling.