Event Conference
How POPs waste poisons the circular economy | BRS COPs Side Event
06 Jun 2022
18:15 – 19:45
Venue: CICG & Online
Organization: International Pollutants Elimination Network
This side event to the 2022 meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BRS), was organized by IPEN, Arnika, CREPD Cameroon and AEEFG Tunisia and recorded by the Geneva Environment Network.
About
The global community has an opportunity to prevent toxic recycling through the substantial strengthening of limit values for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in waste, known as Low POPs Content Levels. Establishing strong limit values for POPs in waste today will significantly promote the future of a toxic-free circular economy, because it will promote innovation in recycling, increase the pressure on industrial designers to remove POPs from products, and ensure that the circular economy is not poisoned in its infancy.
