Welcome to EIA’s rolling daily diary of events taking place at the 27th Conference of the Parties (coP27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
The dumping of plastics in the Pacific Islands is a form of waste colonisation, driving disproportionate plastics pollution and threatening health and livelihoods.
An overwhelming majority in the European Parliament voted to strengthen the European Commission’s plan to cut pollution from single-use plastics. The Parliament voted to ban some of the most problematic throwaway products, and to ensure producers are held accountable for the costs of single-use plastic pollution
Producers could simply market items such as throwaway plastic cups as reusable under changes to a draft EU laws on single-use plastics tabled today in the European Parliament, the Rethink Plastic alliance of NGOs – of which we are a member – has warned