Latest posts tagged with #INC2 on Bluesky
🚨 40 million metric tons of #plastics produced during all five weeks of #INC1 #INC2 #INC3 #INC4 #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty negotiations!
🚨 2 million metric tons of #plasticpollution entered the #environment during all five weeks of #INC1 #INC2 #INC3 #INC4 #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty negotiations!
✅ @who.int has already supported banning cigarette filters as avoidable problematic plastics in its statement to #INC2.
✅ @unep.bsky.social classifies them as single-use plastics.
✅ FCTC #COP10 decision on Article 18 states that filters are “unnecessary, avoidable, and problematic.”
The EPA's National Strategy to Prevent #PlasticPollution & global #PlasticsTreaty talks give businesses a platform to showcase innovation + accountability. Focus #PR on advancing the #CircularEconomy, embracing shared responsibility, & addressing community impacts. #INC2
www.epa.gov/circularecon...
Do not miss @thevonwong’s grand finale to #inc2 — it’s 🔥🔥🔥 via his Instagram #plasticstreaty www.instagram.com/p/CtBe_tOuB3C/
Plastics and rubber-related pollutant releases, as reported via the US Toxics Release Inventory in 1993.
461 facilities released styrene alone -- average release per plant per year, 27K lbs.
US EPA Office of Compliance. #PlasticPollution #inc2 #plasticstreaty @SciDiplomacyUSA
🔥 -- said @EPA in the year 1993
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.35007000078620
#INC2 #PlasticPollution @SciDiplomacyUSA
Plastics are more than their polymer backbones.
Plastics plants make a lot more than plastics.
And while there are some critical use plastics, there is no justifiable reason for outsized production w/ human & planetary health on the line. #inc2 #PlasticsTreaty @HACplastic
See these 🛢️🛢️🛢️? From Union Carbide’s former Bound Brook NJ plant, dumped in early ‘70s by 3rd party hauler in Toms River. Plume ➡️ water; site listed to Superfund.
Dad worked at this plant 1962-1972. These are the stories I grew up w/.
#inc2 #PlasticsTreaty @SciDiplomacyUSA
"Following the 'oil shocks' of the 1970s, [US] oil companies used their large windfall profits and privileged access to feedstocks to increase their share of the US market & also to make impt inroads into Euro. petrochem markets." Source: UN CTC 1990 #inc2 #PlasticsTreaty
Translation: the profusion of plastics packaging, already a major sector plastics use in 1990, was driven in large measure by branding -- #inc2 #plasticstreaty
Source UN 1990 https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015022279973
"Plastic packaging... cannot really be dissociated from the... existence of strong product differentiation... a mode of rivalry btwn concentrated manufactures & retailers in certain final, consumer markets, e.g. food, processing, cosmetics..." UN 1990 #inc2 #plasticstreaty
YouTubing #PlasticsTreaty plenary on Day 2 of #INC2— still procedural, haven’t gotten to plastics or production or the myriad pollutions to which they contribute. Per @Reuters: ~1M plastic bottles are purchased globally/min.
3 hr plenary= 180M bottles...
Via ads in post-WWII trade publications, the US state of Louisiana incentivized plastics/petrochemical companies to build out the Mississippi River corridor above New Orleans. #canceralley #inc2 #plasticstreaty FYI @SciDiplomacyUSA @State_E
Lessons from history: plastics grew in part, but NOT WHOLLY based on functionality or performance. Plastics bloomed through govt/war contracts, nat'l (public) $$$, tech transfer, tax subsidies, loans, marketing, lobbying & more. #inc2 #plasticstreaty @SciDiplomacyUSA Source below
Installation from @thevonwong in Paris for #inc2 is setting the tone — thefinancialexpress.com.bd/world/plastic-spewing-ar...
#PlasticsTreaty
All eyes are on the US 🇺🇸Under Secretary Jose W. Fernandez @State_E & Acting Asst Sec. Jennifer Littlejohn @SciDiplomacyUSA
#INC2 #PlasticsTreaty 🌎🌍🌏
@HACplastic @ScientistsCoa
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf5410
