Plastic Treaty

 

Despite the majority support of promising proposals for global product and chemical bans, the latest draft treaty text offers nothing of use.

As negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty enter their final stretch in Busan, South Korea, national delegates are sleepwalking into a treaty that will not be worth the paper it will be written on.

The current treaty draft text, shared with delegates on Friday, excludes key civil society demands, such as a clear and binding limit on plastic production and a ban or phaseout of the most dangerous plastics and chemicals.

Despite the majority support of promising proposals for a strong and binding treaty on plastic pollution, what we have currently in this text is far from what we need.

A weak treaty based on voluntary measures will break under the weight of the plastic crisis and will lock us into an endless cycle of unnecessary harm.