I have great news! Excited to share that I will be defending my thesis on “The Global Challenge of Plastics Pollution” on October 31, 09:00 CEST.

Another #plastics recycling facility on fire, this one hosting waste "exported" by the UK to Turkey. A terrible case of #wastecolonialism and a huge health hazard to those downwind and ultimately, all of us, as many of the pollutants will enter the food chain. www.linkedin.com/posts/sedat-...

For the first time since Stockholm Univ. was awarded UN observer status, a researcher (Prado Domercq) attended negotiations on a global treaty to end plastic pollution as part of the Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty. @marleneagerstrand.bsky.social www.su.se/department-o...

Los incendios forestales han dejado en A Rúa, Ourense, una masa humeante de residuos plásticos y textiles. Se trata de un inmenso vertedero de restos de moquetas antitérmicas, diseñadas para arder muy lentamente. "No sabemos lo que estamos respirando” social.elpais.com/w3ahz5

The recent global talks in Geneva aimed at reaching a plastic pollution treaty have collapsed once more, with no deal agreed and no clear path forward. Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez is disappointed but thinks no treaty is better than a weak treaty. Read more www.stockholmresilience.org/news--events...

Cuántos lobistas de combustibles fósiles y petroquímicas están en el #TratadoDePlásticos? Porqué las negociaciones están siendo tan difíciles, y con una ambición tan baja por parte de muchos actores? Leer el nuevo trabajo de @ciel.org 🛢️234 lobistas, 17 en delegaciones de países.

How many fossil fuel and petrochemical lobbyist are attending the #INC-5.2 #PlasticsTreaty in #Geneva? Wonder why stallement of substantive matter, and low ambition? Read @ciel.org new report 🛢️234 lobbyist (e.g., Dow, ExxonMobile, American Chemistry Council) 🚨19 lobbyist are in country delegation

@leotrasande.bsky.social FTW! #plasticstreaty negotiators need more “hormonal fortitude” to stand up straight and tall! Too many endocrine disrupters have impaired their ability to firmly resist! Leo was killing it tonight!

Dos días tras comenzar #TratadoDePlasticos, INC-5.2, #USA está mandado cartas a varios gobiernos urgiéndoles a que se oponga a apoyar medidas de reducción de la producción de plásticos. Justo, la medida que más de 100 países apoyan, y la más efectiva para controlar este tipo de contaminación.

US are sending letters to countries to oppose to plastics production caps. Redlines put them in direct opposition to over 100 countries, threating substantive change on how plastics are produced, the only real chance to make them safe and sustainable #PlasticsTreaty www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

In a new paper, 22 scientists—including Professor Ian Cousins and Associate Professor Marlene Ågerstrand at Department of Environmental Science @stockholm-uni.bsky.social —defend the current definition of PFASs established by the OECD. #PFAS #Chemistry www.su.se/department-o...

Wonderful, and on point, threade by @bcarneyalmroth.bsky.social in relation to their last publication in relation to #plasticspollution and the #PlasticsTreaty. While there is no single bullet that will solve this crisis, some solutions will be more effective than others. See thread to learn more!

Muchas gracias a Miguel Criado del @elpais.com por contar con mi opinión para este comentario sobre el nuevo artículo científico de Zhao y compañeros en @nature.com a cerca de la distribución de microplásticos en la superficie y columna de agua.

So so so well deserve!! Richard, aka El Padrino. Thanks for inspiring so many is us, for working so hard to bring robust independent science to the policy arena with the @scientistscoa.bsky.social at #PlasticsTreaty!

The UN Human Rights Council has just officially recognised plastic pollution as a threat to human rights. Here's a look at how plastic disproportionately affects Indigenous Peoples - and how they're fighting back dialogue.earth/en/pollution... @dialogueearth.bsky.social

#PlasticPollition #HumanRights #CleanHealrhyEnvironment #PlasticsTreaty www.ciel.org/news/un-adop...

Bethanie Carney Almroth of @scientistscoa.bsky.social provides arguments for the need & importance of having scientists actively participating in the treaty, including in supporting small delegations that lack access to science and expertise against biased arguments during negotiations.

What's worse than living next to a cement kiln? Living next to a cement kiln burning plastic! And being rewarded with plastic credits that allow consumer goods companies to greenwash their image with consumers: www.source-material.org/plastic-cred...

Honored to work with scientists from around the world bringing science to the highest leveles of environmental policy making! #ScientistsCoalitionForAnEffectivePlasticsTreaty @pattyvillarrubia.bsky.social @mfdignac.bsky.social @melaniebergma18.bsky.social @docmarinfernan.bsky.social

And so it begins. The last session of the negotiations of the #PlasticsTreaty #INC5 hosted in Busan. May it be a productive week in which all countries negotiator work to safe guard the health and safe future free of plastics pollution for the environment and the humans within it. Good luck!

Arrived in Seoul to prepare for #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty. Saw the first add related to the Treaty: plastics production reduction!! 💪🏼