Life of Plastic: Uruguay meet concludes; implicitly endorses CSE’s position on polymer pollution

The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-1)’s session in Uruguay’s Punta Del Este for developing an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution concluded on December 2, 2022. It endorsed that plastic pollution is rooted in the material’s life cycle.
The UN Secretariat’s document titled Summary of plastic pollution said the current system needs to be replaced by a circular economy model for which 4 strategic goals that can guide the transition:
Eliminate and substitute unnecessary plastic items, including hazardous additives.
Design ‘circular’ plastic products — reusable, recyclable or compostable after multiple uses.
Ensure that plastic products are reused, recycled, or composted.
Manage plastics that cannot be reused or recycled, responsibly.
Global plastic production was 460 million tonnes (Mt) in 2019 compared to 234 Mt in 2000. In the same period plastic waste rose to 353 Mt from 156 Mt. In 2019, 109 Mt of waste accumulated in rivers and 30 Mt in oceans.
Delhi based think tank Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) report titled The Plastic Life-cycle notes that petroleum, petrochemical, and plastic industries continue to manufacture plastic at an alarming rate in India.

Most of the plastic used in India today is for packaging with crude oil also being converted to plastic every year. Most of this is non-recyclable single-use plastic.
The ‘Extended Producer Responsibility’ (EPR) legislation has been introduced in India in 2022 for plastic packaging.
But according to CSE, the execution of the policy will be a major challenge since there are gaps.
The informal sector workforce has made recycling possible in India since waste flows to recovery systems through them.

Most of India’s plastic waste is dumped in open dumpsites (67 per cent). The country burnt (20 per cent) more plastic waste than it recycled (12 per cent).
CSE suggested short-term, mid-term and long-term measures to tackle plastic pollution in the country like strengthening India’s plastic waste production, consumption and recycling inventory; making brands disclose the amount of plastics produced, collected, recycled and burnt each year; including the informal sector in the formal plastic management value chain; designing product packaging keeping ‘end-of-life’ stage in consideration and making petrochemicals accountable.

[Gk-ogig]

People it self avoid use palstic automatically demand is lesss then production has been stopped by big corporate 💛

[Gk-ogig]

Use metal bottle nad carry during traveling 💛

[walkingorophile]

Banned plastic products are thriving again. .at least i'm seeing in my area . Don't know what kind of ban Government is implementing . .