Plastic Pollution Treaty Talks Deadlocked as Negotiations Draw To a Close (pbs.org)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/14/198211/plastic-pollution-treaty-talks-deadlocked-as-negotiations-draw-to-a-close
- Source link: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/plastic-pollution-treaty-talks-deadlocked-as-negotiations-draw-to-a-close
> A draft of the treaty released Wednesday wouldn't limit plastic production or address chemicals used in plastic products. Instead, it's centered on proposals where there's broad agreement -- such as reducing the number of problematic plastic products that often enter the environment and are difficult to recycle, promoting the redesign of plastic products so they can be recycled and reused, and improving waste management.
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> It asks nations to make commitments to ending plastic pollution, rather than imposing global, legally-binding rules. French President Emmanuel Macron said the "lack of ambition" in the draft treaty was unacceptable, and that agreeing to a global treaty against plastic pollution "is our opportunity to make a difference."
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"problematic plastic products" (Score:2, Informative)
Yeah, does that include all the commercial fishing gear? As usual the worst polluters are big industries, but we get blamed for using plastic straws.
addicted to oil (Score:3)
Plastic production and fuel production go hand in glove. As long as we insist on one, we will have both.
What's not in the abstract (Score:2)
The talks are deadlocked because the petrol countries (north Africa and U.S.A.) are hellbent on continuing to produce oil derivatives.
We can't even solve easy problems (Score:2)
This is why I suspect humanity is doomed. It's because we suck. When faced with problems of global significance, everyone puts their personal short term benefit above the future of humanity, and we don't do anything.
It's not like this is even a hard problem. We know what we need to do. We already have the technology to do it. A lot of it just means switching back to older technologies that work just fine. The only real obstacle is people who make more money from not solving it. So we don't even do th
Democracy (Score:2)
Modern democracy is not well suited to addressing long term problems. The problem needs to get pretty clear and present before the electorate will start asking their representative to do something.
It's like that with modern media too. Media used to have a sort of parental attitude. Smart people would broadcast what they thought was good for the populace. Modern media content is voted for in real time by the populace itself, meaning that those smart voices are diluted by all the rest.
For democracy purists, a
WHO SPECIFICALLY IS POLLUTING AND HOW? (Score:2)
What countries dump plastic in rivers and oceans along with their trash? (Waste should be sorted and treated ashore, not dumped into a global food source.)
plastic jesus (Score:1)
I don't care if it rains or freezes,
Long as I have my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car,
Through my trials and tribulations
And my travels through the nation
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far