US EditionMomentum Sagging at UN Plastic Pollution Treaty Talks
- Juan Monterrey Gomez criticized countries opposing a comprehensive plastic pollution treaty, stating that microplastics are present in human bodies and highlighting the danger of plastic pollution.
- He claimed it is a lie that we can recycle our way out of the plastic crisis, emphasizing that "we cannot recycle our way out of this crisis... when the poison is inside us."
- Microplastics have been found in extreme environments, including mountain peaks and ocean trenches, demonstrating their widespread presence.
- A recent study published in The Lancet describes plastics as a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger to human and planetary health.
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Every year, 22 million tons of plastic waste is released into the environment, poisoning soil and oceans, threatening biodiversity and human health.
“Plastics. There is a great future in plastics. Think about it, do you want to think about it?” The ironic phrase heard by a young Dustin Hoffman during a scene in the film El Graduado (1967) became a premonitory environmental tragedy. More than half a century later, delegates from 179 countries negotiate in Geneva a global treaty to stop the pollution of polymers, at an international meeting that next week enters its decisive phase. If no agree…
At the mid-point, the new negotiating session launched in Geneva on Tuesday between 184 countries to try to draft the first global treaty against the scourge of plastic pollution remains bogged down in the divisions, despite the voluntarism of its organizers.
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BizTocNew study highlights ‘grave, growing’ danger of plastic pollution to world’s health
In Geneva, negotiators from 175 nations are trying to hammer out the first-ever legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. The urgency of the talks was underscored this week by a new study published in The Lancet. It calls plastics a “grave, growing and under-recognized danger to human and planetary health.” John Yang speaks with Tracey Woodruff, one of the study’s authors, to learn more.
Corporate recycling efforts lag as UN seeks treaty on plastic
With diplomats gathered in Geneva this week to try to hammer out a treaty to reduce plastic pollution, major buyers of plastic packaging are behind on their targets to use more recycled content — and some are scaling those goals…
Negotiations on an international agreement on plastic waste are taking place.
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