Search Results
Member Stories, News, Plastic Policies
Green groups question Government’s sinister moves to lift the ban on incineration
by admin | December 19, 2019
(Quezon City, Philippines, December 16, 2019)—Environment groups today lambasted the Philippine government’s moves to lift the anti-incineration provisions of the Clean Air Act and Ecological Solid Waste Management Act. On November 13, the bills amending these laws passed at the committee level in Congress to make way for thermal waste-to-energy facilities, which are essentially still […]
CONTINUE READING
Europe: In 2020, let’s write the new story of plastic, together!
by Matt Franklin | December 12, 2019
CONTINUE READING
Opposition Letter to Save our Seas Legislation November 19
by admin | November 8, 2019
CONTINUE READINGShifting the Narrative from Straws to Pipelines
by Olivia Rathbone | September 12, 2019
CONTINUE READING
TEJAS STATEMENT – AUGUST 2, 2019 BAYTOWN EXXONMOBIL OLEFINS PLANT – POLYPROPYLENE FIRE & EXPLOSION
by Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services | August 5, 2019
July 31, 2019, at 11:00am ExxonMobil Olefins Plant, a petrochemical facility located in Baytown, Texas next to ExxonMobil refinery experienced an explosion at 11:00 am. A polypropylene unit erupted in flames from causes yet to be known. Polypropylene is a plastic feedstock derived from the processing of natural gas. Natural gas goes through “gas separation” […]
CONTINUE READING