The nation will try again on the world’s plan to face plastic pollution mess

The nations gather in Geneva on Tuesday, which try to fulfill a historical treaty with the aim of ending plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and individual on the planet.

This is the sixth time holding meeting and they have final expectations. An important division is whether the treaty needs to cut plastic production, which opposed powerful oil producing countries; Most plastic fossils are made from fuel. They say that redesign, recycling and re -use can solve the problem, while other countries and some major companies say it is not enough.

Only one treaty can gather the required global action, leading the ocean negotiator to 39 small islands and low-level coastal developing states, Angelic Popono said. At home at Seychelles, Popono said, plastic contaminates fish that they eat, stack on the beaches and cut the sea to weaken tourism and their way of life.

“This is the world’s last opportunity to fulfill it and correct it,” he said. “It would be a tragedy if we do not live up to our mandate.”

Insaar Anderson, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program, stated that the issues are complex, but the crisis is “actually spilling” and a narrow passage for a treaty. He said that many countries agree to recycled plastic products and improve waste management, for example.

“We need to get a solution to this problem. Everyone wants it. I still want to meet someone who is in favor of plastic pollution,” Anderson said.

The annual aquatic ecosystem is leak between 19 million to 23 million tonnes of plastic waste, It can jump 50% by 2040 According to the United Nations, without immediate action.

Rapid disagreement to limit plastic production

In March 2022, 175 countries agreed to make the first legally binding treaty on plastic pollution by the end of 2024. It was to address the full life cycle of plastic including production, design and disposal.

Dialogue in South Korea was in the final stages last year, but they Decided in a deadlock in December More than cutting. Every year, the world makes more than 400 million tonnes of new plastic, and He can grow About 70%by 2040 without policy changes.

Around 100 countries want to limit production and also want to deal with cleanliness and recycling. Many people have said that it is necessary to address toxic chemicals.

Panama attempted to address production in the treaty in South Korea. The conversant Debra Sisnaros said they would do so again in Geneva as they strongly believe in addressing pollution at the source, not only through downstream measures such as waste management.

“If we are now away from that ambition, we risk adopting an agreement that is politically convenient, but environmentally speaking, is ineffective,” he said.

Around 300 businesses that are members of the business alliance for a global plastic treaty-support companies such as the Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and L’Oreel support to reduce production with recycling and reuse. The coalition includes major food and beverage companies and retailers who want an effective, binding treaty with global rules to release the headaches of different approaches in different countries.

Some plastic-productive and oil and gas country strongly oppose the production limit. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter of a common type of plastic, has said that the group has claimed that if the world addresses plastic pollution, there should be no problem in producing plastic.

American position on treaty

The US does not support the global production cap or restriction on some plastic products or chemical additives.

The Department of State says that it supports provisions to improve waste collection and management, improve product design and recycling, reuse and improve other efforts to cut plastic dumped in the environment.

The Foreign Department said in a statement to the Associated Press, “If the talks are to be successful, the agreement should be aimed at protecting the environment from plastic pollution, and the agreement should recognize plastic of importance in our economies.”

It is similar to the ideas of the plastic industry, which states that a production cap can have unexpected results, such as increasing the cost of plastic, and that chemicals are regulated elsewhere.

According to the Plastic Industries Association, China, the United States and Germany leads global plastic trade by export and imports.

How high will the target of negotiators be?

For any proposal to make it in the treaty, each nation must agree. Some countries want to change this process so that decisions can be made by one vote if necessary. India, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait and others have opposed that it is important to argue for a consensus for an effective treaty.

Negotiaters are discussing some provisions opt-in or opt-out to avoid a deadlock. International coordinator of the eradication network of international pollutants, Byorn Billa, said that it would mean a treaty without teeth or obligations, with little value. Cisneros said that if prepared carefully, it is an option to find some normal land.

Plastic and Chemicals Company, an executive vice -chairman of Lyondelbassel and Vice Chairing of the World Plastic Council, Vice Chairing, Tracy Campbell said that he would ask the negotiators to find and start a way to agree and start and then construct it.

He suggested dealing with things such as product redigation, recycled material mandate and waste collection, waste sorting and recycling technologies.

In contrast, Greenpeace will call for a minimum of 75% decrease in plastic production by 2040 in Geneva.

“We will never recycle the way you get out of this problem,” Graham Forbes said, who leads the Greenpeace delegation.

Thousands participate

Representatives of most countries, plastic industries and businesses that use plastic, environmentalists, scientists, indigenous leaders and communities affected by plastic pollution are in Geneva. Around 80 government ministers are participating in the talks that will run for 10 days – the longest session so far, which has been scheduled for August 14.

Franky Oranki, Executive Director of the Society of Native Nations, Texas, has been for every conversation session. Orona said that indigenous land, water and air are being contaminated as fossil fuels are extracted and plastic is manufactured using dangerous chemicals.

“We think we have to present them to tell them, and to see, there are people who are actually influenced by the plastic crisis,” he said.

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Jennifer McDermot, Associated Press