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A UN treaty to end plastic pollution will enter its final round of negotiations in Busan, Republic of Korea. ... flooding plastic into our oceans, soil, air, and food chains, and raises increasing ...
The U.S. and 174 other nations failed to agree on a new treaty to reduce the plastic pollution contaminating our environment, food, water, and even our bodies.
Negotiations to draft a legally binding treaty to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis have ended without an agreement, as countries failed to agree on key issues like cutting plastic ...
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.
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.
Environmental activists hold a protest on Saturday, November 23, 2024, to demand a stronger treaty against plastic pollution before the 5th session of the International Negotiating Commission on ...
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]
In 2022, the world's nations agreed that a global treaty was needed to tackle the issue of plastic pollution particularly the impacts on the marine environment - and this should be completed ...