More than 100 countries reject draft treaty as ‘unambitious’ and ‘inadequate’
Talks on the world’s first legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution have stalled just one day before the negotiations are due to end.
More than 100 “high ambition” countries rejected as “unacceptable” and “unambitious” a draft treaty text that does not limit plastic production, nor address chemicals used in plastic products.
The main sticking point at the talks, now in their third year, has been whether to cap plastic production or to focus on issues such as better design, recycling and reuse.
More than 100 “high ambition” countries have pushed for a plastics treaty to include strong, legally binding measures with a limit on plastic production, in order to address plastic at source, and many have said toxic chemicals in plastics need to be controlled.
