The war on Iran exposed plastic industry dependence on volatile fossil fuel supply chains, driving up costs for everyday goods. A strong #GlobalPlasticsTreaty can help build a more stable, resilient future.
Six ways the war on Iran exposed the real cost of plastic
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#globalplasticstreaty — Public Fediverse posts
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The war on Iran exposed plastics’ dependence on volatile fossil fuel supply chains, driving up costs for everyday goods. A strong Global Plastics Treaty can help build a more stable, resilient future.
#GlobalPlasticsTreaty
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Plastics treaty: Cordano presents “Aid to negotiations” but disappoints science Materia Rinnovabile https://www.byteseu.com/2350520/ #Climate #economy #environment #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Plastic #Pollution #Science
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/84492/ Greenpeace USA calls on Dove to Kick Plastic Out #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Plastics #Plastics&Health #Unilever
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McDonald’s and Coca-Cola caught trying to gut Europe’s landmark plastics law months before it takes effect – Greenpeace
WASHINGTON, DC (May 1, 2026) — In response to a private letter sent by 138 corporations urging European…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #plastics #Plastics&Health #Science
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/469572/ McDonald’s and Coca-Cola caught trying to gut Europe’s landmark plastics law months before it takes effect – Greenpeace #Éire #Environment #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #IE #Ireland #Plastics #Plastics&Health #Science
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McDonald’s and Coca-Cola caught trying to gut Europe’s landmark plastics law months before it takes effect – Greenpeace
WASHINGTON, DC (May 1, 2026) — In response to a private letter sent by 138 corporations urging European…
#Europe #EU #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Plastics #Plastics&Health
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/300988/ Author argues ‘systemic change’ needed as plastic waste overwhelms world #CancerAlleyEnvironmentalJustice #Éire #Environment #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #IE #Ireland #JudithEnck #PlasticRecyclingMyth #Science #SingleUseCutlery #TheProblemWithPlastics
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Recycling was never designed to solve the plastics crisis.
Industry sold a myth while plastic production kept rising.
We need governments to cut plastic at the source and secure a strong #PlasticsTreaty that puts people and planet over profits.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/greenpeace-plastic-report
#plastic #plasticpollution #pollution #globalplasticstreaty #recycling
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There is a date for INC-5.3! But, it is only for "administrative purposes with the focus on election of officers including for the position of Chair". It will take place in Geneva on 7 February, immediatedly after the first session of the ISP-CWP (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution).
https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution/session-5.3
#GlobalPlasticsTreaty #PlasticsTreaty #PlasticTreaty #INC5.3
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Fixing the Global Plastics Treaty at The United Nations
Canadian artist and activist Benjamin Von Wong at the unveiling of his art installation “Perpetual Plastic Machine” on…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Bioplastics #Circulareconomy #environment #EnvironmentalDiplomacy #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #petroleum #Polymers #Recycling #SaudiArabia #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnitedNations
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Fixing the Global Plastics Treaty at The United Nations
Canadian artist and activist Benjamin Von Wong at the unveiling of his art installation “Perpetual Plastic Machine” on…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Bioplastics #CA #Canada #Circulareconomy #EnvironmentalDiplomacy #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #petroleum #Polymers #Recycling #SaudiArabia #Science #UnitedNations
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Fixing the Global Plastics Treaty at The United Nations
Canadian artist and activist Benjamin Von Wong at the unveiling of his art installation “Perpetual Plastic Machine” on…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Bioplastics #Circulareconomy #EnvironmentalDiplomacy #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #petroleum #Polymers #recycling #SaudiArabia #Science #unitednations
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Das gescheiterte Plastik-Abkommen und was das Scheitern über die Menschheit aussagt (Global Plastics Treaty, Statista, Analyse, Kommentar) #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Plastics #PlastikAbkommen #Förderländer #Umwelt #Umweltschutz #USA #China#Russia #Recycling
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The world is in a “plastics crisis” causing disease and death from infancy to old age.
#GlobalPlasticsTreaty
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/291319/ Edinburgh Forth Road Bridge protestors speak out as area remains closed off #Britain #Edinburgh #ForthRoadBridge #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #GreatBritain #Greenpeace #INEOS #JimRatcliffe #PlasticPollution #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom
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UK MPs back global targets to reduce plastic production and pollution – edie https://share.google/gA6pS9F2FGKyb5XAj
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UK MPs back global targets to reduce plastic production and pollution – edie https://share.google/gA6pS9F2FGKyb5XAj
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⚠️ Your snacks are feeding climate chaos. 🚨 New research reveals supply chain links between brands like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé — and fracked gas from Texas. 📽️ Watch the video ✊ Join the call for a strong #GlobalPlasticsTreaty @stand.earth @breakfreefromplastic.org @ellejurca.bsky.social
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⚠️ Your snacks are feeding climate chaos. 🚨 New research reveals supply chain links between brands like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé — and fracked gas from Texas. 📽️ Watch the video ✊ Join the call for a strong #GlobalPlasticsTreaty @stand.earth @breakfreefromplastic.org @ellejurca.bsky.social
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We’ve just hit a major ocean protection milestone at the UN Ocean Conference — 50 countries have now ratified the Global Ocean Treaty! This means we only need 10 more before we can start using the Treaty to create ocean sanctuaries 🌍💙
Let’s keep swimming forward, because we’re almost there 🐠💪
Tell your government to protect the oceans NOW!
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We won't recycle our way out of plastic pollution.
We have to make less plastic.
That is why we absolutely must reduce plastic production by at least 75% by 2040.
Join the movement fighting for an ambitious #GlobalPlasticsTreaty
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Micro- and Nano-Plastics Are in the Air, Water, and Land: The Health Effects Need Much More Study
#Health #Environment #MicroPlastics #NanoPlastics #PlasticPollution #NIH #EnvironmentalHealth #Plastics #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #PublicHealth #Sustainability
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No #PlasticsTreaty agreement. It sounds like a block of oil-producing nations like Saudi Arabia are refusing to commit to cuts in production. #INC5 #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #PlasticPollution
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Lots of complaints from Busan #INC5 that many of the meeting rooms are far too small, limited capacity, with many #PlasticsTreaty observers being turned away.
Not a good look for transparency and accountability.
I am following the negotiations for a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty online
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The Global Plastics Treaty must cut production and consider the full life cycle of plastics. #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #INC5 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/24/world-unable-cope-10-years-talks-un-global-treaty-to-end-plastic-waste
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‘Outraged that some plastic you send for recycling ends up being burned? Don’t be’
An interesting perspective, worth reading.
Doesn’t make me hate plastic packaging or the supermarkets that use it any less.
Nearly all of our soft plastic waste is associated with food. We still need to attack the source.
#bansingleuseplastic #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #environment #plasticpollution
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RT by @EU_ENV: Köszönöm @HU24EU for hosting & co-chairing the bi-annual stocktaking & brainstorming meeting of all MS Environment Director Generals.
Important at this interinstitutional juncture and ahead of #COP16Colombia #COP16UNCCD #GlobalPlasticsTreaty to meet.
[2024-10-03 16:01 UTC]
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And how did we get to this point? Believe it or not, it started with coming up with a substitute for #ivory...
The plastic paradox: How plastics went from elephant saviors to #EcoVillains
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?by Ross Pomeroy
January 23, 2024"It was 1869, and something needed to be done.
"With the price of ivory skyrocketing, billiard ball manufacturers were scrambling for an alternative. The prized material derived from elephant tusks was being used to craft such things as knife handles, piano keys, dice, dominoes, chessmen, and yes, billiard balls. Now, with #elephants growing scarce from overhunting, the wonder material was becoming difficult to procure and unreasonably expensive. After all, one tusk would yield just four or five balls. Leading pool table manufacturer Phelan and Collender offered $10,000 ($225,000 today) to any inventor who could discover a replacement for ivory.
"Albany inventor John Wesley Hyatt answered the call, molding together camphor, nitrocellulose, and alcohol under extreme pressure. His concoction, called celluloid, was one of the first synthetic plastics. While Hyatt’s creation proved an unwieldy material for billiard balls — insufficiently durable and mildly explosive when struck — it inspired others to formulate something better. A few decades later, American chemist Leo Baekeland came up with the petroleum-derived Bakelite. It became the first commercially successful synthetic plastic, and very likely saved elephants from #extinction."
[The article goes on to mention how #plastics and #PFAS are interconnected...]
"According to the authors of the report, plastic additives may be the most pernicious. These substances augment plastics to make them more useful to consumers: stronger, more pliable, less #flammable, non-stick, etc. However, large observational studies and research in lab animals indicate they are harming human health.
"The substances could be increasing cancer rates, reducing birth weights, inhibiting antibody responses to vaccines, raising blood pressure, and contributing to infertility. These compounds include polybrominated diphenyl ethers (#PBDE), phthalates, bisphenol A (#BPA), and per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (#PFAS).
"Philip J. Landrigan, a professor, pediatrician, and Director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College, is the lead author of the Minderoo-Monaco Commission report. He spoke with Big Think about the potential harms of plastic additives.
"Landrigan was a pediatrician during the 1970s, when lead in gasoline, paints, and toys was secretly poisoning children. He says chemicals leaching from plastics constitute a similar threat: As they’re not chemically bound to the plastic matrix, they can easily escape into the environment. #PBDEs, added as #FlameRetardants in furniture and other products, have been found in house dust and are neurotoxic, he says.
“The thousands of chemicals in plastics — #monomers, additives, processing agents, and non-intentionally added substances — include amongst their number known human #carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, #neurotoxicants, and persistent organic #pollutants,' Landrigan and his fellow authors wrote in the report.
"Given these negative effects, it may seem as if plastic is a fire-breathing dragon. While it began as an ally, it has now turned against us. If we don’t get the dragon back under control, it could spell our downfall.
"To respond to threats from plastics, the experts on the Minderoo-Monaco Commission called for a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty comparable to the Paris Climate Agreement to combat climate change. As part of the treaty, they insist that a 'cap on global plastic production with targets, timetables, and national contributions' is needed. Global plastic use is estimated to nearly triple by 2060."
Read more:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/plastics-costs-benefits-paradox/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us#Crapitalism #BanPlastics
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What's happening at the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations in Ottawa?
According to the Center for International Environmental Law, 196 representatives of fossil fuel and chemical companies have registered to attend.
That's three times more than the number of independent scientists (58), and seven times more than the number of Indigenous Peoples representatives (28).
Say no to plastic and fossil fuel industry lobbyists.
#EndThePlasticEra #EndPlasticPollution #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Ottawa
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What am I currently reading? What Progress on a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty, with the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee 4th meeting #INC4 meeting in Ottawa. Here is the IISD/ENB first daily report:
#PlasticsCrisis
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Earth Day 2024 in Ottawa: latest blog post, updated with additional events and actions! https://greenlivingottawa.com/2024/04/15/mark-earth-day-2024-in-ottawa-by-supporting-an-end-to-plastic-pollution/
Image courtesy of EarthDay.Org https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2024/
#EarthDay #EarthDay2024 #EndPlasticPollution #PlasticFreeFuture #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Ottawa
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Important overview article in Nature Medicine journal on #microplastics and #humanHealth as we approach #INC4 meeting negotiating a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty to address #PlasticsCrisis
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Earth Day/Week events in Ottawa: community festivals and workshops, environment-themed markets, a repair café, a March to end plastic pollution, and more!
#EarthDay #EarthDay2024 #PlasticFreeFuture #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #Ottawa
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18-APR-2024
International experts issue renewed call for Global Plastics Treaty to be grounded in robust sciencenegotiations re. #GlobalPlasticsTreaty set to resume next week
Government officials from across the world, and around 4,000 observers representing different aspects in society will gather in Ottawa, Canada, April 23-29 for the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4).
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Pathway to a Plastic-Free Future: Mobilizing for Change at INC-4
#CircularEconomy #INC4 #Plastics #UNEP #INC4Action #WaterKeeperAlliance #PlasticFreeFuture #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #EndPlasticPollution
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#PlasticsTreaty #INC3 in Nairobi, Kenya concludes with no intersessional work approved, petro states blocking consensus, negotiating in what some call in bad faith.
New revised zero draft authorised to be prepared by the Secretariat by 31 December 2023 for #INC4 in Ottawa in April 2024Read my roundup of the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty negotiations and comment by NGOs:
#PlasticsCrisis #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis
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From Nairobi, Kenya at the Plastics Treaty negotiations, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) released an open letter from NGOs to High Ambition Coalition on Plastics (60 odd countries, including #Australia) urging them to live up to their namesake and advocate for a strong #Plasticsreaty! #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #INC3 #PlasticsCrisis
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Magnus Løvold, from the Norwegian Academy of International Law, provides perceptive comment on Medium: As the third round of the #PlasticsTreaty negotiations wraps up in Nairobi, one thing is clear: Someone must go.
The #FossilFuel Petro-states are obstructing, delaying, obfuscating.
#INC3 #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #BreakFreeFromPlastics #PlasticsCrisis
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More than 140 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have been admitted to participate in the #INC3 #PlasticsTreaty talks meeting this week in Nairobi.
That’s more participants than 70 countries combined.
It is also greater than the 38 Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty participants.#BreakFreeFromPlastics #FossilFuels #ConflictOfInterest #GlobalPlasticsTreaty
https://www.ciel.org/news/fossil-fuel-and-chemical-industries-at-inc-3/
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Juressa Lee is at the UN #INC3 negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty in Nairobi.
Juressa is part of the Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus and also represents Greenpeace.
#globalplasticstreaty #inc3 #indigenous #greenpeace #plastic #plasticpollution #oil
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3rd meeting of negotiations for a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty started today in Nairobi, Kenya. Here is Inger Andersen's speech at the Plenary setting the scene for an ambitious global treaty covering the full #plastics lifecycle .
#INC3 #BreakFreeFromPlastics
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The problem of plastic pollution is too big for any one nation to handle. That’s why we need a global approach. It’s worked before with the ozone layer and acid rain and it can work again with plastic.
We need a global treaty to solve plastic pollution – acid rain and ozone depletion show us why
#recycling #plastic #plasticpollution #unitednations #montrealprotocol #PlasticWaste #plasticrecycling #Globalplasticstreaty #Microplasticpollution #Oceanplasticpollution #Plasticpollutiontreaty #Single-useplastic #UNEnvironmentAssembly -
The #INC3 negotiations are happening now.
In order to #BreakFreeFromPlastic, world leaders, including New Zealand, MUST push for a STRONG Global Plastics Treaty at the negotiating table.
Here's what that looks like:
https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/greenpeace-demands-for-a-strong-global-plastics-treaty-2/?utm_medium=share&utm_content=postid-61615&utm_source=mastodon -
Want to read the background on the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations? This is the place to start...
A tale of two treaties — On the procedural woes of the plastics treaty negotiations and why they matter#INC3 meets 13 - 19 November 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Plenary sessions will be webcast by the UNEP
https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution/session-3#GlobalPlasticsTreaty #plastics #PlasticsCrisis #PlasticsTreaty #InternationalLaw #BreakFreeFromPlastics
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Let’s end the age of #plastic
Ask world leaders to support a global plastics treaty! #GlobalPlasticsTreaty
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Plastic pollution in some NZ lakes is comparable to northern hemisphere lakes in highly populated areas, global study finds https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/plastic-pollution-in-some-nz-lakes-is-comparable-to-northern-hemisphere-lakes-in-highly-populated-areas-global-study-finds/?utm_medium=share&utm_content=postid-60629&utm_source=mastodon , via @GreenpeaceNZ
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #GlobalPlasticsTreaty
