Category: Environment EN

We Need a Clear Definition of Plastic Pollution  Here’s what took place on Day 4 of the Global #PlasticsTreaty.  

A Recap of Day 3 Talks On the 3rd day of the INC2 #PlasticsTreaty, negotiations finally moved to Contact Groups – after 2 days of delay focused solely on the draft Rules of Procedure. The INC heard calls from NGOs, Indigenous Peoples, Women, impacted communities, trade unions, workers, scientists, and other rights-holders and civil society members for: dramatic reductions of plastics...

Stop Unnecessary Plastic Production To stop plastic pollution, unnecessary plastic production must stop. For the Global #PlasticsTreaty to be effective, the treaty must include significant, progressive, and mandatory targets to cap and dramatically reduce virgin plastic production.    

A Recap of Day 2 Talks Check out the recap of the 2nd day of the #INC2 negotiations of the #PlasticsTreaty.  

A first-ever study reveals the hard truths behind soft drinks' plastic bottles: The beverage industry supply chain of this common plastic, known as polyethylene terephthalate or PET, is riddled with carcinogens, emissions and contamination. Worldwide, the beverage industry buys more than 500 billion plastic bottles annually – nearly a million per minute. Making PET requires hundreds of...

Beat Plastic Pollution is the theme for this year’s World Environment Day.  The data put out by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) is staggering. Around the world, one million plastic bottles are purchased every minute, while up to five trillion plastic bags are used worldwide every year. Plastic production keeps growing, with half of all plastic produced designed for...

Lydia Chai, a Malaysian lawyer based in Auckland, has been campaigning for New Zealand to stop sending plastic waste to Malaysia and other developing countries. Her campaign garnered a lot of media interest, including comments by then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. 11,500 people signed Chai’s petition. On Thursday 8 June 2023 at 6:40am Malaysian time, Chai will be facing off against industry...

Research just published by the US Environment Protection Agency has found that recycled paper and construction materials “contained greater numbers of chemicals than virgin products”. Some 733 identified chemicals, including flame retardants, solvents and dyes, “had greater occurrence in recycled compared to virgin materials”. The authors of the paper, published in Environmental Science...