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Deja el Plastico (Ditch the Plastic) is aimed at reducing plastic pollution in California; its efforts helped lead to the passage of the state’s ban on single-use plastic bags in 2016.
Plastic pollutes oceans, food, your body. Yet nations are divided over a global treaty. Why all eyes are on talks for a U.N.-led accord to cut plastic waste.
The Scientists' Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty is a network of international, independent scientific and technical experts on plastic pollution. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They aim to provide scientific information to countries involved in the negotiations towards a global agreement to end plastic pollution . [ 1 ]
Delegates from more than 170 nations are gathered in Busan this week to hammer out the details of what could become the world’s first treaty paving the path to end plastic pollution.
Members agreed that the treaty will be international in scope, legally binding, and should address the full life cycle of plastics, including its design, production, and disposal. [4] It has been argued that chemicals contained in plastics such as additives, processing aids, and unintentionally added substances need to be addressed, too.
An international environmental agreement or sometimes environmental protocol, is a type of treaty binding in international law, allowing them to reach an environmental goal. In other words, it is "an intergovernmental document intended as legally binding with a primary stated purpose of preventing or managing human impacts on natural resources ."
A UN treaty to end plastic pollution will enter its final round of negotiations in Busan, Republic of Korea. ... We need a truly transformative international treaty based on global rules defining ...
International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships; International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution of the Sea by Oil, London, 1954, 1962, 1969; International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (ICRW), Washington, 1946; International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture