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Microplastics: an emerging threat to human and planetary health Microplastics (MPs), along with the chemicals they release, are pervasive and persistent contaminants in ecosystems worldwide. Increasingly, MPs are also being detected throughout the human body.Scien...

I'm really looking forward to participating in this @nature.com conference on "Microplastics: an emerging threat to human and planetary health"

📆 18th Nov
📍London

⬇️ Details & registration
natureconferences.streamgo.live/microplastic...

#microplastics #onehealth #plasticpollution #PlasticTreaty

Dette unngår plastforskerne helt Hvor farlig er egentlig mikroplast og kjemikalier fra plasten vi omgir oss med? Vi spurte forskerne hva de selv har sluttet helt med.

Informativ artikkel med blant andre @martiwag.bsky.social om hva plastforskere unngår i sine egne liv:
- Å varme mat i plast.
- Klær av plastmaterialer.
- Kjøkkenutstyr med plast og teflon.
- Engangsplast som kaffekopper og matemballasje når det er mulig.

www.tv2.no/nyheter/inne...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

NHANES! The source of so much critical health info!

www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

Science and policy: Crossing the boundary - Dale Jamieson, Naomi Oreskes, Michael Oppenheimer, 2015 Because of their specific knowledge, scientists are well positioned to identify environmental threats to humankind, sound the alarm, and propose and comment, at...

"While scientists need to recognize the limits of what they can contribute... they must be involved in the policy process now more than ever. Attempts to exclude them- whether by external forces or by self-censorship-deprive society of an important resource"

Microplastics: an emerging threat to human and planetary health Microplastics (MPs), along with the chemicals they release, are pervasive and persistent contaminants in ecosystems worldwide. Increasingly, MPs are also being detected throughout the human body.Scien...

In case you are close to London, here is a half-day event on #microplastics on 18th of November. Organized by @nature.com.

natureconferences.streamgo.live/microplastic...

UN politics won’t deliver an ambitious plastics treaty Negotiators again failed to finalize the text for a global plastics treaty in Geneva in August 2025. The talks exposed two harsh truths. Consensus on the treaty text, where no state formally objects, ...

We make a similar argument here: that the UN won't be able to deliver ambitious plastics treaty. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems The global context has shifted dramatically since publication of the first EAT–Lancet Commission in 2019, with increased geopolitical instability, soaring food prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic exacer...

„Obesity rates continue to rise globally, and the pressure exerted by food systems on planetary boundaries shows no signs of abating.“

Plastics are the key enabler of globalized food systems…

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01201-2/

Plastic Chemicals - A Toxic Relationship and How We Can Start Fixing It In this episode, we’re taking a deep dive into plastic chemicals and their impacts on human and environmental health. You’ll learn why it’s not such a great idea to put plastic containers into your di

The fabulous @anjakrieger.bsky.social has dropped a new episode of the Plastisphere podcast - this time with Jane Muncke and myself pondering over the issue of plastic chemicals and, well, capitalism. Enjoy! #plasticpollution #plasticstreaty

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Palace intrigues The plastics treaty talks in Geneva ended without a deal. As negotiators weigh their options about the way forward, troubling questions are…

After the Geneva round of the #PlasticsTreaty talks ended without a deal, troubling questions are being raised about the role played by @unep.org Executive Director Inger Andersen — and an apparent bid to topple the Committee’s elected Chair medium.com/points-of-or...

Palace intrigues The plastics treaty talks in Geneva ended without a deal. As negotiators weigh their options about the way forward, troubling questions are…

Glad this finally comes to light! UNEP and its Exec Director Inger Anderson have played a questionable role throughout the INC process but even the prospect of them staging a coup against the Chair is deeply concerning. #plasticstreaty
https://medium.com/points-of-order/palace-intrigues-e158a369e296

Plastics in the marine carbon cycle - Nature Sustainability Marine plastic pollution is a growing problem threatening ocean ecosystems. Now research explores how these plastics may be impacting the ocean’s ability to offset anthropogenic carbon emissions.

"...We are making & discarding so much plastic that it has become a substantial component of the global carbon cycle..." Aron Stubbins (The Plastics Center at Northeastern University) on Pang et al's piece on plastics & the marine carbon cycle in NatureSustainability

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Call for Evidence for Substances in packaging and packaging waste - ECHA

🧪 ECHA has started a Call for Evidence for Substances in packaging/packaging waste.

🗓️ Open consultation deadline: 28.10.25

Please contribute papers and other evidence, as there will probably be many submissions with #ConflictsOfInterest.

➡️Details here: echa.europa.eu/cfe-substanc...

#plastic

In a new interview, journalist Saabira Chaudhuri explains how the plastics industry persuaded consumers to embrace disposability — no matter the costs.

What can we learn from the pioneers who started the citizen science beach cleanup movement?
I wrote about the lessons we can learn from their plastics activism for the conversation.

The larger strategy has many names: disinformation playbook here, manufactured doubt in my field.
The result is always the same: scientists and science are being harmed by actors with vested interest and so are health and the environment. #plasticstreaty

Opinion | Throwaway Plastic Has Corrupted Us

"Single-use plastic was never inevitable. It was a business decision," writes Saabira Chaudhuri. Good reminder of manufactured demand.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/o...

Excellent reporting on endocrine disrupting chemicals in plastics. Some of them suggested for a global ban under a future #plasticstreaty.

Australian ban on fish-shaped plastic soy sauce dispensers a world first South Australian law on single-use plastic packaging coming into force on 1 September will ban polyethylene containers known as shoyu-tai in Japan

Baby steps are better than none… #plasticpollution

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How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - What really happened in Geneva? Play How [Not] to Make a Plastics Treaty - What really happened in Geneva? by Plastisphere Podcast on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

Podcast alert 🔔 Our recap of the #plasticstreaty negotiations - with @arharrington1.bsky.social

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In the brutal heat in Geneva [and the #plasticstreaty negotiations], everybody seems in desperate need of some cooling down.

Some hope needed for #plasticstreaty negotiations. This on is a piece of art I found at the UN premisses this morning.

Many winding paths unfold in the #plasticstreaty negotiations. This one leads to the Swiss Ceramic and Glass Museum right next to UN compound. Why not take a little break to contemplate other materials?

Hi #INC5 — it’s 1925 calling — Did you know that in 1925, Bakelite ran this ad copy in the Sat. Evening Post: "Under water for six months -- and still alright." 4/25/1925
According to a 1931 US Tarriff Commission report, Bakelite Corp. spent $217,867 that year on advertising. #PlasticsTreaty

The Discovery of Plastic Pollution Plastic pollution seems to be a pretty new issue, right? In the past few years, the topic has been all over the media. But if you explore the history of science, it turns out that the problem really i

Just a reminder #plasticpollution is not a new issue. Scientists found plastic in birds in the 1960s and described ocean plastics in the early 1970s, with reports in media like the NYTimes and Washington Post. The #plastics industry knew.

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#inc52 #plasticstreaty

Multilateralismus ist anstrengend und frustrierend, das verstehe ich. Aber als einer der mehr als 60 WissenschaftlerInnen vor Ort in Genf finde ich derartige Aussagen nicht hilfreich. Die große Mehrheit der Länder verhandelt für eine starkes Plastikabkommen auf Basis wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse.

This marvelous Sequoiadendron giganteum grows next to the UN building where the #plasticstreaty negotiations happen. Strong reminder that some things outlast us, not only plastics.

Yes it does, this is why polycarbonate plastics are banned in many applications, such as baby bottles.

Noting the usual at INC meetings, unfortuately:

The water containers in the UN buildings are made of polycarbonate, that is Bisphenol A, one of the very chemicals of concern countries seek to ban in the #plasticstreaty.

Tap water is perfectly safe to drink in Geneva.

And so it begins (and hopefully ends without too much watering down). #plasticstreaty