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EXPERT REACTION: UN Plastics Treaty Reported to Be Near Collapse
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There should be a global agreement to reduce damage to the environment and health caused by plastic waste. Hours before the end of the negotiation period, the trenches between countries are deep.
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Plastic Treaty should ban Compostable Plastics
Plastic Treaty should ban compostable plastics such as PLA and PBAT PBAT is a fossil based co-polymer mixed with bio-based polymers such as PLA to make it compostable. PLA uses food crops such as corn and sugar cane and agricultural lands. PLA competes with food production. Compostable plastics will contaminate the ‘fresh’ and organic compost […]
The tough negotiations for a UN plastics agreement are threatening to collapse. On the penultimate day of the meeting between representatives from 184 countries, oil-producing countries, other states, and environmental organizations faced irreconcilable opposition.
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