IPEN Science & Research Reports
Here you will find informational resources (including publications, reports, etc.) that IPEN developed to help educate and orient NGOs, decision-makers and the general public about chemical safety issues. Please note that many of these resources are available in multiple languages — just click on them to see what languages are available.
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- Plastic Additives
- Plastic Fuels and Incineration
- Plastic Waste
- Plastics Treaty
- Plastics and Health
- Toxic Recycling

7 Harmful Chemical Types in Plastics

An Introduction to Plastics and Toxic Chemicals

Chemicals in Plastics: Poisoning the Circular Economy

Enhancing Controls to Protect Human Health from Plastics

Environmental, Food and Human Body Burden of Dechlorane Plus in a Waste Recycling Area in Thailand: No Room for Exemptions

Global Controls on Plastic

Hazardous Chemicals in Plastic Products

Hazardous Chemicals in Plastic Products and Food Chain in Kenya

How Plastics Poison the Circular Economy

How the Plastic Pollution Resolution relates to chemicals and health

IPEN Plastics Treaty Platform

IPEN Quick Views INC-2

Non-Combustion Technology Already Available

Ocean Pollutants Guide

Plastic & Health: The Hidden Costs of a Plastic Planet

Plastic Litter is Carrying Toxic Chemicals

Plastic pellets found on beaches all over the world contain toxic chemicals

Plastic Waste Fuels

Plastic Waste Management Hazards: Waste-to-Energy, Chemical Recycling, and Plastic Fuels

Plastic Waste Poisoning Food and Threatening Communities in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe and Latin America

Plastic Waste Poisons Indonesia’s Food Chain

Plastic Waste Trade: The Hidden Numbers

Plastic’s toxic additives and the circular economy

Plastic’s Toxic Chemical Problem: A Growing public health crisis

Plastics Treaty: Key Principles

Plastics, EDCs & Health

Plastics: Carbon and Chemicals

POPs Recycling Contaminates Children’s Toys with Toxic Flame Retardants

Some Plastics Can Poison Children

Toxic Ash Poisons Our Food Chain

Toxic Industrial Chemical Recommended for Global Prohibition Contaminates Children’s Toys

Toxic Loophole: Recycling Hazardous Waste Into New Products

Toxic Soup: Dioxins in Plastic Toys

Troubling Toxics

UV-328 Research Update

Waste Incinerator Ash Poisons the Food Chain

Weak Controls: European E-waste Poisons Africa’s Food Chain

Widespread chemical contamination of recycled plastic pellets globally