2024-12-05 16:45 The world produces some 400 million tonnes of plastic waste every year. About half of all plastic is designed to be single use, that is, thrown away after being used just once. Hopes for a global treaty to tackle plastic production and waste faded at the start of December, when UN-backed talks failed to reach an agreement on curbing plastic pollution. A lot of global efforts to tackle plastic waste is focused on recycling – a so…

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France

Plastic Planet: UN talks fail to curb production

How much plastic waste is produced now? What is the most common type of plastic waste found in the environment? Why are several countries averse to tackling plastic pollution? Why did talks fail at Busan? Is another round of negotiations likely?

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The Hindu

The Hindu Group

India

why can’t the world agree on a plastic ban

Australian Minister for the Environment Tanya Plibersek expressed disappointment after U.N. members failed to reach a global agreement on plastic pollution at the fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the Global Plastics Treaty (INC-5).
Members representing more than 170 nations negotiated two documents by INC Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso in Busan, South Korea, but did not reach a deal and will resume the talks next year.
The INC comes…

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The Epoch Times

Epoch Media Group

New York

United States

Australian Environment Minister Disappointed as UN Members Fail to Reach Agreement on Plastic Pollution

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Monterey Bay Aquarium chief conservation and science officer Margaret Spring about why negotiators failed to clinch a global treaty on reducing plastic pollution.

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Washington

District of Columbia

Why countries failed to reach a global deal on cutting plastic pollution

Government of France

The nations of the world were supposed to complete negotiations on a Global Plastics Treaty on December 1. They didn't. The main sticking point was some countries' demand for a global cap on the future production of plastics. Plastics are ubiquitous because they are amazingly useful and cheap. (Baseline projections suggest that annual global plastic use will triple to 1.3 billion tons by 2060.) They are also extraordinarily durable, taking decad…

Reason

Reason Foundation

U.N. plastics treaty talks collapse

An international agreement to prevent plastic pollution is yet to be adopted, but the EU wants to lead by example,

Mednarodni dogovor za preprečitev onesnaževanja s plastiko še ne bo sprejet, EU pa hoče voditi z zgledom,

Evropa se pri plastiki strelja v koleno

delo.si

Europe is shooting itself in the knee when it comes to plastic

The fifth and intended final meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on plastic pollution in Busan, South Korea, concluded with negotiators unable to reach a deal on a new global treaty to curb plastic pollution. The failure of this fifth session of the INC, or INC-5, to deliver on its mandate highlights the persistent challenges of reaching a consensus to solve the growing issue of global plastics pollution.

Merco Press

Caracas

Libertador

Capital District

Venezuela

Fifth global conference fails to reach deal on curbing plastic pollution

Plastic is everywhere – so much so that it’s hard to imagine life without it. But plastic damages both the environment and our health and contributes to global warming.Talks in Busan to create a global treaty on ending plastic pollution failed after negotiators clashed on the issue of cutting production. We look at whether Europe...

Times of Malta

Strickland Foundation

ARTE Europe Weekly: What is the EU doing to fight plastic pollution?

The nations of the world were supposed to complete negotiations on a Global Plastics Treaty on December 1. They didn't. The main sticking point was some countries' demand for a global cap on the future production of plastics. 
Plastics are ubiquitous because they are amazingly useful and cheap.…

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U.N. Plastics Treaty Talks Collapse

Plastic production is expected to triple by 2026 and experts have predicted plastic in oceans could outweigh fish by 2050. 
Australian Minister for the Environment Tanya Plibersek expressed disappointment after U.N. members failed to reach a global agreement on plastic pollution at the fifth Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the Global Plastics Treaty (INC-5). Members representing more than 170 nations negotiated two documents by INC Ch…

Plastic Planet: UN talks fail to curb production

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