CONTRIBUTING ORGANIZATIONS:

A large number of concerned individuals and organizations are part of the IPTF network. Listed below is information about some of the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's) that are part of the network.

Africa:

Asia and the Pacific:

Waste Concern, Bangladesh

Korea Waste Movement Network

Corporate Watch India

New Zealand Zero Waste Focus

Tamil Nadu environment Council (TNEC)

 

Thanal Conservation Action & Information Network

Toxics Link India

Solutions In Action Tibet/USA

 

South America and the Caribbean:

Alihuen ARGENTINA

The Haitian Collective for the Protection of Environment and Alternative Development (COHPEDA)

ECOS RIOPLATENSES A.C.

Greenpeace Chili

Europe:

Dubnica Environmental Group (Slovak Republic)

NO Incinerators For Europe

North America:

BASEL ACTION NETWORK

Campaign For Progressive Waste Management

Department of the Planet Earth (an NGO) in Washington, DC

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)

Institute for Local Self Reliance

Mindfully.org, a public information website that tells you what the industry won't.

OTHER HELPFUL LINKS:

 

A variety of additional groups are working to mitigate the environmental and health affects that plastics create both locally and internationally. Here are some groups you can contact for further information:

The Urban Waste Expertise Programme www.waste.nl A good source of information on all kinds of waste management in less-industrialized countries.

Californians Against Waste, www.cawrecycles.org/Action_Alerts/frames.html
This group is spearheading the effort to past Senate Bill 1110 which would expand the state’s plastics recycling law to include food and cosmetics containers and increase the recycling rate requirement for plastic containers from 25% to 35%.

Green Action, 415-252-0822, website: www.greenaction.org
One of the campaigns of this local group is to stop the incineration of medical waste in Oakland. Medical waste contains large amounts of PVC which emits highly toxic dioxins when incinerated.

Greenpeace www.greenpeaceusa.org has been pushing for a phase out of PVCs because of their harmful effects on the environment and on our health. Take a look at their fact sheet on PVC: www.greenpeaceusa.org/media/factsheets/poisonplastictext.htm

Environmental Defense Fund, www.edf.org
The EDF has produced a report on Extended Producer Responsibility. You can find it at: www.edf.org/programs/PPA/vlc/epr.html.