This week there is new pressure to remove a significant number of toxic elements which are included in plastics. These are used to add flame retardance and resistance to breakdown from light or UV. The International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) has released the report this week and it can be found here. To get a global picture of the role plastics play in transporting toxic chemicals around the world, IPEN worked with International Pellet Watch and its NGO partners in 35 countries to investigate hazardous chemicals and pollutants present in spilled or lost pre-production plastic pellets found on beaches and recycled plastic pellets at recycling facilities. They pretty much all had toxic chemicals in them. All of them contained significant…