The International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting in Slovenia has voted to engage with the United Nation in pursuit of a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution.
Today we launch a ‘Scientists’ Declaration’, backed by 183 scientists and 37 research institutions, with a warning to political leaders that a global plastics treaty must be based on hard scientific evidence if it is to meaningfully tackle the planetary crisis
The predicted rise in plastic pollution spilling into the environment constitutes a planetary emergency, EIA's latest report warns