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Single-Use Plastic Products (SUPP) and their alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments

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February 2021

UN Environment Programme (UNEP) defines single use plastic products as “an umbrella term for different types of products that are typically used once before being thrown away or recycled” (UNEP 2018), which includes food packaging, bottles, straws, containers, cups, cutlery and shopping bags. It has been estimated that about 100-150 million tonnes of plastics are produced for single use products and about 8 million tonnes of plastics are dumped into the oceans every year (Plastics Oceans 2019)There is a need

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products

Topics: Life Cycle

Video

Gender equality to make mercury history

March 2021

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On International Women’s Day, the Secretariat of the Minamata Convention on Mercury launched a video on how women are more negatively impacted by mercury and what needs to be done to better protect, support and promote gender equality. watch the videoThe Minamata Convention tackles mercury throughout its entire life cycle, fighting gender issues every step of the way. This includes supporting gender-specific trainings and helping implement National Action Plans with a gender perspective -- with special focus on the problem

Emerging Policy Issues: Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals

Topics: Gender mainstreaming

Policy document

Guidance on key considerations for the identification and selection of safer chemical alternatives

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March 2021

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The aim of the guidance is to advance broader agreement on a general approach and criteria for the selection of safer alternatives, with a focus on chemical substitution. It is intended to advance a consistent understanding of the minimum requirements needed to determine whether a chemical alternative is safer than the priority chemical, product, or technology for substitution, independent of the entity performing the assessment or the alternatives assessment framework being used.The guidance focuses on minimum assessment criteria and recommended

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products

https://saicmknowledge.org/articles/future-policy-award-protection-hazardous-chemicals

Future Policy Award for the Protection from Hazardous Chemicals

Hamburg/Geneva/New York/Paris, 10^th November 2020 – 55 policies from 36 countries enter the race for

https://saicmknowledge.org/articles/supporting-costa-rica-navigate-higly-hazardous-pesticides-path

Supporting Costa Rica navigate the Higly Hazardous Pesticides path

Costa Rica or ‘rich coast’ was named in the sixteenth century for the gold its indigenous

https://saicmknowledge.org/articles/empowering-sri-lankas-vital-industries-manage-chemicals-smart-way

Empowering Sri Lanka’s vital industries to manage chemicals the SMART way

A teardrop-shaped tropical island in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka’s economy has been shaped in recent

https://saicmknowledge.org/articles/women-leaders-and-quick-start-programme-balkans

Women leaders and Quick Start Programme in the Balkans

Celebrating successful women-led health and chemicals projects in Balkan communities.

Women across the world have played

https://saicmknowledge.org/articles/equitable-access-chemicals-training-through-electronic-distance-learning

Equitable access to chemicals training through Electronic Distance Learning

When a professional from a developing country needs to be trained in a specific skill, how

https://saicmknowledge.org/articles/improving-food-security-lesotho-through-proper-use-herbicides

Improving food security in Lesotho through the proper use of herbicides

Food security has long been a challenge in Lesotho, and with a growing population, the onset

https://saicmknowledge.org/articles/mali-and-senegal-communities-monitoring-pesticides

Mali and Senegal communities monitoring pesticides

Have you ever thought on the difficulties faced in many developing countries in the use of