Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez, She/her
@pattyvillarrubia.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC, SU). I focus on plastics pollution, Planetary Boundaries, science-policy.
Scientists Coalition for An Effective Plastics Treaty
Scientists Coalition for An Effective Plastics Treaty
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Five Centre researchers made into onto this year's Clarivate list of Highly Cited researchers!
Warmest congratulations to Sarah Cornell, Max Troell, Johan Rockström, Garry Peterson and Carl Folke (who is listed twice, in Social Sciences, and Environment and Ecology)!
Warmest congratulations to Sarah Cornell, Max Troell, Johan Rockström, Garry Peterson and Carl Folke (who is listed twice, in Social Sciences, and Environment and Ecology)!
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Five Centre researchers made into onto this year's Clarivate list of Highly Cited researchers!
Warmest congratulations to Sarah Cornell, Max Troell, Johan Rockström, Garry Peterson and Carl Folke (who is listed twice, in Social Sciences, and Environment and Ecology)!
Warmest congratulations to Sarah Cornell, Max Troell, Johan Rockström, Garry Peterson and Carl Folke (who is listed twice, in Social Sciences, and Environment and Ecology)!
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.
Excited to share that I will be defending my thesis on “The Global Challenge of Plastics Pollution” on October 31, 09:00 CEST.
Plastics are more than a waste problem - they’re tied to social-ecological issues and disrupt Earth’s systems. Join Patricia as she defends her thesis revealing plastics’ links to fossil fuels, toxins, and injustice.
📅 Oct 31, 09:00 | 📍 Hörsal 6, Albano | 🔗 stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/67745468019
📅 Oct 31, 09:00 | 📍 Hörsal 6, Albano | 🔗 stockholmuniversity.zoom.us/j/67745468019
October 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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.
Excited to share that I will be defending my thesis on “The Global Challenge of Plastics Pollution” on October 31, 09:00 CEST.
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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-...
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This morning (21.09.2025), residents of Çukurova, Adana, woke up under a dark sky filled with toxic smoke. A fire broke out in an illegal #plastic waste depot located in Küçükdikili. These facilities ...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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-...
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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
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When science meets politics: Inside the stalled plastics treaty negotiations - Department of Environmental Science
This August, delegates from 183 nations gathered in a spacious UN hall in Geneva with a daunting task: to negotiate the world’s first legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution. More than 2,600 p...
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September 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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
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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
Alarma en Galicia por un gran vertedero que nadie apaga tras los incendios: “No sabemos lo que respiramos”
El enorme depósito de desechos plásticos y textiles en el municipio ourensano de A Rúa lleva días ardiendo y la Xunta no se hace cargo de su complicado sellado
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August 27, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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
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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...
Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez is disappointed but thinks no treaty is better than a weak treaty. Read more www.stockholmresilience.org/news--events...
August 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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...
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.
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.
August 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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.
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
🛢️234 lobbyist (e.g., Dow, ExxonMobile, American Chemistry Council)
🚨19 lobbyist are in country delegation
August 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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
🛢️234 lobbyist (e.g., Dow, ExxonMobile, American Chemistry Council)
🚨19 lobbyist are in country delegation
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@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!
August 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@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.
August 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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
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Exclusive: Trump administration memo urges countries to reject plastic production caps in UN Treaty
The United States has sent letters to at least a handful of countries urging them to reject the goal of a global pact that includes limits on plastic production and plastic chemical additives at the start of U.N. plastic treaty talks in Geneva, according to a memo and communications seen by Reuters.
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August 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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
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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
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Scientists defend widely used definition of PFASs - Department of Environmental Science
In a new paper published today in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, 22 scientists—including Professor Ian Cousins and Associate Professor Marlene Ågerstrand from the Department of Environmen...
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June 11, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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
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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!
We know that we face a global crisis of #PlasticsPollution. We know that production levels are beyond what societies and the Earth system can manage or tolerate. We also know that #plastics materials and the the full plastics life cycle are complex, and that there is no one single solution.
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May 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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.
Mar de plástico: un estudio global de los océanos mide miles de micropartículas hasta en la fosa de las Marianas, en el Pacífico
Mar de plástico: un estudio global de los océanos mide miles de micropartículas hasta en la fosa de las Marianas
Estos materiales sintéticos ya se han incorporado al ciclo de la vida y del carbono desde la superficie hasta el fondo de los mares
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May 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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!
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!
So well deserved ✨! Thanks for all your work!!
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Microplastics pioneer named among TIME’s 100 most influential people of 2025
University of Plymouth news: Professor Richard Thompson OBE FRS has been included on the TIME100 list for his groundbreaking work to address the global...
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April 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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!
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!
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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
Indigenous Peoples fight to be heard at plastics treaty talks
Though disproportionately affected by plastic pollution, Indigenous Peoples are struggling to shape a global treaty on it
dialogue.earth
April 4, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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
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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.
March 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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.
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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...
Burning plastic and emitting toxic gases central to ‘plastic offsetting’
Plastic offsetting sector’s preferred solution puts the climate and people’s health at risk, without curbing production.
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February 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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...
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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
#ScientistsCoalitionForAnEffectivePlasticsTreaty
@pattyvillarrubia.bsky.social @mfdignac.bsky.social
@melaniebergma18.bsky.social @docmarinfernan.bsky.social
Today, the Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty, sent a letter to the Bureau of the INC for the Global Plastics Treaty. We stress the crucial importance of #science and observer participation, transparency and evidence-based decisions in the #INC.
#PlasticsTreaty @unep.org
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#PlasticsTreaty @unep.org
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February 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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
#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!
November 25, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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!! 💪🏼
November 20, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Arrived in Seoul to prepare for #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty. Saw the first add related to the Treaty: plastics production reduction!! 💪🏼