Time for a global plastics treaty

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The aim is not to demonise plastics – they have many valuable uses, from food hygiene to their role in the medical and aerospace sectors. Instead, the world’s immense appetite for single-use plastics has to end, and efforts to capture and reuse plastics must dramatically scale up.

One million plastic bottles are purchased every minute and up to five trillion plastic bags are used worldwide every year, according to UNEP

In total, half of all plastic produced is designed to be used once and then thrown away. 

Millions of tonnes of waste end up in rivers and oceans every year, killing wildlife from seabirds to whales. The world is also awash with trillions of microplastic particles, which have been found in the stomachs of marine life and in human blood.

Qn: Should plastic be banned? (RI 2023 J2 Mid-yr)