CHE Webinar: Plastic Production's Threats to Health

CHE Partnership Webinar from The Effects of Plastics on Health Series: Plastic Production's Threats to Health: Global Trends, Chemical Footprints of Common Plastics, and the PVC Industry’s Wake of Pollution. Araceli Fernandez Pales, Senior Energy Technology Analyst at the International Energy Agency, discusses the new IEA report The Future of Petrochemicals, which explores the role of the sector in today’s global energy system and how its significance for global energy security and the environment is set to increase on the basis of established trends. Mark Rossi, Executive Director of Clean Production Action, discusses the hazardous chemicals that are the building blocks of the plastics economy, delving into the toxic life cycle of plastics and tools for identifying safer and greener chemicals. Jim Vallette, Research Director at Healthy Building Network, discusses how the production of chlorine and its derivatives like chlorinated plastics has a massive and growing impact on human health and the environment, revealing this industry's markets, trends, alternatives, and impacts, which include an alarming dependence upon asbestos and mercury. October 30, 2018.

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