CelloMom On Cars
Plastics are made of oil or fracked ethane. The #FossilFuel industry is looking to plastics as their future income stream. Not surprisingly:
At negotiations to end #PlasticPollution, delays "manufactured" by oil-rich countries "left little time to discuss the actual ins and outs of the future #plastics treaty — including whether to reduce plastic production, how to fund the implementation of the treaty, and whether to ban certain single-use plastic products."
CelloMom On Cars
"Malaysia will ban plastic waste imports from the U.S. starting Tuesday because of America’s failure to abide by the Basel Convention treaty on international waste transfers, in a move that could have significant consequences for California.
The U.S. is one of just a handful of countries, including Fiji and Haiti, that hasn’t signed the pact.
Malaysia emerged as a major destination for U.S. waste after China banned American waste imports in 2018."
CelloMom On Cars
"Negotiations for a historic global treaty to end plastic pollution reconvene in August, three years after they began. The goal is ambitious: to set new, legally binding and equitable global agreements that change how plastics are produced and consumed.
Fossil fuels and subsidies are at the core of the plastic crisis."
CelloMom On Cars
#PFAS and #microplastics become more toxic when combined, research shows
"Study detects synergistic effect making substances more dangerous, raising alarm since humans are exposed to both"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/25/pfas-microplastics-toxic
CelloMom On Cars
Global plastic talks collapse as oil states rebel
"Although many issues are being discussed the key split is around Article 6 - whether there should be a commitment to cutting how much #plastic is produced, or just try and reduce plastic waste by increasing efforts to recycle."efforts to cut production levels."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c785l1nrpd1o
Who is surprised?
Oil and gas companies (including petrostates) are *counting* on plastics for their growth for the next decade. Cutting production? Forget it.
CelloMom On Cars
Oh, and:
"InfluenceMap, a think tank, found that the petrochemical industry intervened dozens of times on the treaty via company statements, social media and consultation responses, and 93% of those were unsupportive of efforts to cut production levels."
CelloMom On Cars
"The new data was revealed as delegates prepared to meet in Busan, South Korea, to hammer out the world’s first treaty to cut plastic pollution: a legally binding global agreement to tackle plastic pollution across the entire plastics life cycle.
But the talks, which have been subject to heavy lobbying by the alliance and fossil fuel companies, are on a knife-edge in a row over whether caps to global plastic production will be included in the final treaty."
CelloMom On Cars
"Carbon Brief analysis shows that without any agreement to cut plastic production, emissions from plastics could consume half of the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels."
https://www.carbonbrief.org/five-charts-why-a-un-plastics-treaty-matters-for-climate-change/
CelloMom On Cars
Plastics currently cause triple the emissions of aviation.
If, for climate reasons, you're not hot on flying: I'm with you!
Let's also work on plastics.
Plastics are everywhere, so you can tackle it everywhere.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/five-charts-why-a-un-plastics-treaty-matters-for-climate-change/
CelloMom On Cars
"The world will be “unable to cope” with the sheer volume of plastic waste a decade from now unless countries agree to curbs on production, the co-chair of a coalition of key countries has warned ahead of crunch talks on curbing global #PlasticPollution.
Progress has stalled over a row about the need for cuts to the $712bn plastics industry.
The final round of talks, which starts on Monday and is due to end on 1 December, is critical."
CelloMom On Cars
"The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (including ExxonMobil, Dow, Shell, TotalEnergies and ChevronPhillips, promised to divert 15m tonnes of plastic waste in five years to the end of 2023, by recycling, and creating a circular economy.
The data reveals the five companies alone produced 132m tonnes of polyethylene (PE) and PP (polypropylene) in five years – more than 1,000 times the weight of the 118,500 tonnes of waste plastic the alliance has actually removed."
CelloMom On Cars
Frontline communities urgently need an end to #PlasticPollution .
"Communities on the frontlines of any part of the #plastic lifecycle, from oil extraction to trash dumps and everywhere in between, are hit with a trifecta of injustice: plastic pollution, social #injustice, and the #climate crisis. The plastic deluge that is left after every climate-crisis-fuelled storm only reinforces this point."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/frontline-communities-need-ambitious-global-plastics-treaty
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