How many people today grab a takeaway coffee cup from the local cafe to drink on the go? We don’t know, but the number must be enormous.. Most every one of the above have a plastic top that will last 100s of years. Some cafes still use plastic cups that last a similar time. Is 10 minutes of coffee worth 100s of years of trash?
These items can be seen littering our gutters and on our streets all over the place. If they were all cardboard, they would still be littered, but they would, at least, be gone in a short time.
They do not need to be made of plastic.
On the way home from the gym last week, a distance of about 1 km (1/2 mile), I counted the items of plastic litter on the curb as I walked. In that short distance I counted 63 pieces of plastic litter. Plastic drink bottles, bottle tops, candy wrappers, plastic film, polystyrene fragments etc. That seemed to be a lot to me. I guess it is a generational thing. Our parents would have been horrified to see that amount, whereas it seems to go unnoticed by our youth of today. In another 20 years how many pieces will there be on this stretch, -- 200? What will today’s youth think of that new amount then when they are older? Will their children be so readily accepting of a higher amount of litter? Plastics Treaty talks to resume in August in Switzerland
Posted on March 7, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic Limiting Regulations
The United Nations Environment Programme has set a date and place for a new round of negotiations towards a Global Plastics Treaty.The second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2) will take place Aug. 5-14, 2025, at the Palais des…
Source: Plastics Treaty talks to resume in August in Switzerland | Plastics News
The United Nations Environment Programme has set a date and place for a new round of negotiations towards a Global Plastics Treaty.
The second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2) will take place Aug. 5-14, 2025, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
The resumed session will be preceded by regional consultations on Aug. 4.
The UN resolution that launched the plastics treaty in 2022 envisioned Busan as the fifth and final round.
But with countries unable to bridge some sizable gaps, they ended Busan with calls to have the treaty’s administrative body, the intergovernmental negotiating committee, organize INC 5.2.
The main points of contention include disputes over limiting production, regulating chemicals, and paying for the treaty.
The European Union, part of the High-Ambition Coalition, now supports majority voting for a global plastics treaty while suggesting it would rather walk away from a bad deal than agree to a treaty it sees as too weak.
How to make decisions has been very contentious in the previous five rounds, with the current rules calling for countries to make decisions based on consensus of all 170-plus nations in the talks.
In recent public statements, diplomats from those countries say they’re working behind the scenes to “consolidate” growing support for those ideas that surfaced at the last round of talks.
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