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Dear Reader,
Even if some of us aren’t yet aware that just roughly nine percent of plastics are actually recycled globally, most of us support a plastics treaty to stem the seemingly endless production of the stuff.
So it has been good news that countries have been working to create an ambitious agreement. But there’s bad news too, unfortunately. Talks have broken down, leading to another negotiating season planned for 2025. The main problem seems to be countries, primarily Russia and Saudi Arabia, but also Kuwait and Iran, who don’t want to do anything to reduce production of plastic. They want to strictly address what we do with it downstream, an approach one attendee likened to trying to mop up the floor while the tap is still on. Grist has created this deep dive into negotiations and raised an important point: With fossil-fuel companies thwarting an ambitious agreement that more than 100 of the countries genuinely want, why are they allowed into the negotiations in the first place?
Research tells us that microplastics have reached, literally, every place on earth, including Antarctica and Point Nemo, the most remote part of the ocean.
We don’t yet know the impact of all the plastics we ingest — that now show up in our brains, in semen, and in placentas. But we know it’s bad. And we know that something needs to be done not only to deal with all the plastic that’s already been produced, but to stem the production of plastic, especially as fossil-fuel companies — looking for alternate business models as the world shifts quickly to renewable energy — promise to ramp it up.
Carbon Brief summarizes why this matters in a handy chart.
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Impatiently,
Dot
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