Plastic Waste Power Play: The offshoring and recycling displacement involved in trying to recycle EU plastic waste
Since records began in the late 1980s, over a quarter of a billion tonnes of plastic waste has been traded globally.
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Convention on Plastic Pollution – Essential Elements – Production
Virgin plastic production and consumption have reached unsustainable levels. Overproduction has meant inexpensive virgin plastic is used freely and inefficiently, with unfavourable economics for most recycling, leading to a stark discrepancy between how much plastic is produced and how much is recycled.
Convention on Plastic Pollution – Essential Elements: Reuse
The new legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution will need to consider measures across the full lifecycle of plastics. So called ‘midstream’ measures, for example on product design, will be essential to complement absolute reductions in plastic production.
Convention on Plastic Pollution – Essential Elements: Fishing Gear
Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) – also known as ‘ghost gear’ – is a major contributor to marine plastic pollution.
Global Plastics Treaty: Initial Considerations for INC-1
In this briefing we provide some key considerations for negotiators going into INC-1 (previous briefing in this series can be found here).
Initial Considerations for Plastics Treaty INC – Briefing
Initial Considerations for the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the UNEA Resolution 5/14 to End Plastic Pollution: Towards a Legally Binding Global Instrument.