The world is squandering its plastics treaty moment
An op-ed in the Daily Star by Dr. Shahriar Hossain, Senior Policy and Technical Advisor for Environment and Social Development Organization -ESDO, an IPEN member group from Bangladesh, notes that…
How the petrochemical lobby influenced the UN plastics summit
IPEN International Coordinator Bjorn Beeler spoke with Bay Area public media about the recent Plastics Treaty negotiations. Listen here.
Plastic talks end without consensus
An article in Kompas notes that negotiations at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland, were finally concluded without consensus on Friday (15/8), although the majority of countries acknowledged that…
Plastic Pollution Talks Collapse as Oil States Oppose Tough Treaty
In the New York Times, a story notes that negotiations over a global plastic pollution treaty collapsed on Friday as countries failed to bridge wide gaps on whether the world…
Why is Indonesia burning mountains of foreign plastic waste?
Plastic waste dumped mainly from wealthier nations to low- and middle-income countries is a global problem. This DW story describes how illegal dumping sites full of foreign-labeled packaging to small…
UN plastics treaty talks end without an agreement
In Grist, a story notes that diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into the early hours…
Toxic Chemicals in Plastics Poison Workers
A story in Inside Climate News notes that so much plastic waste ends up in dumps around the world that millions of people, mostly in poor countries, make their living…
UN plastics treaty talks fall apart once again
A story in Chemical & Engineering News notes that after 10 days of increasingly agitated deliberations, what was supposed to be the end of multilateral negotiations to create a global…
UN plastic treaty negotiations end in failure, again
A story in Mongabay notes that representatives from 184 countries recently gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, to tackle the growing plastic crisis. The Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting (INC 5.2) went into…
The Plastics Treaty: What’s Next
See IPEN Executive Director speaking with CBS News about the end of the Plastics Treaty INC-5.2 negotiations and the road ahead toward a global agreement.
