Jed Alegado #PlasticsTreaty
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Jed Alegado #PlasticsTreaty
@jedalegado.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU 🇦🇺 studying degrowth 📉, alternatives to development 🌱, & zero waste 🗑️. Comms campaigner and consultant for environmental movements. Part-time lecturer Ateneo de Manila & De La Salle 🇵🇭

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Instructive interviews IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE with the heads of polling firms Pulse Asia & Octa led me to dig into more election data. Yup, we’ve seen this film before. Column:
https://www.rappler.com/voices/thought-leaders/newsstand-survey-says-history-will-repeat-itself-senatorial-surveys-2025/
[Newsstand] ‘Survey says?’ History will repeat itself
The Marcos administration will win big in the Senate, but a few of Duterte’s allies will slip through. We’ve seen this film before.
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February 16, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Disposable issues: The Sociological Review magazine’s #TSRWaste issue looks at wasted resources, wasted opportunities and wasted lives.

Contributions from Miriam Emefa Dzah, @jedalegado.bsky.social, Aline Stehrenberger, Amit Balmiki, Mark Parsons, Alexandrina Vanke and many more.

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January 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A snippet from my PhD dissertation on @sociologicalreview.bsky.social Magazine’s latest themed issue on #TSRWaste

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“Waste workers have no formal job contracts or social protection, no labour rights and no bargaining power over the price of waste.”

In our new #TSRWaste issue, Joseph Edward B. Alegado meets the precarious workers in the Philippines dealing with a deluge of plastic.

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December 14, 2024 at 4:45 AM
With only a few hours left in the negotiations for a #PlasticsTreaty, we call on courageous delegations to keep defending key ambitious provisions. #BeatPlasticPollution #BreakFreeFromPlastic #INC5
December 1, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Interesting panel in #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty in Busan. 👇🏽
Happening NOW at #INC5 in Busan: Monitoring Progress Business and Policy Solutions following the UN #PlasticsTreaty featuring #breakfreefromplastic changemakers and other allies. A 🧵

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November 26, 2024 at 2:57 AM
👋 Hey #INC5 delegates!

👩🏽🔬👨🏻🔬🧑🏼🔬 Did you know that more than 900 independent scientists have signed a new declaration calling UN negotiators to agree on a comprehensive and ambitious global #plasticstreaty to end plastic pollution by 2040?

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November 24, 2024 at 11:34 PM
🚨 Ahead of #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty in Busan next week, our latest #PREPRINT examines plastic credits as a compensatory measure for addressing plastic pollution. Instead of reducing pollution, it could exacerbate fragmented plastics governance & reinforce #WasteColonialism.
👉🏽 zenodo.org/records/141143…
November 23, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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💥💥💥 BREAKING: BFFP-CIEL one-stop shop Streamlined comparison for Delegates to work with the 🪑 Non- Paper & 📃 Compilation Draft Text of the #PlasticsTreaty

READ: www.ciel.org/wp-content/u...
November 19, 2024 at 10:11 AM