Uno-Konferenz zu Plastikmüll: Plastik ist eine unserer größten Plagen für den Planeten

Die Plastiklobby schüchtert Forscher ein, beleidigt sie und verbreitet PR-Märchen. Bislang mit Erfolg. Bei der Uno-Konferenz gegen Plastikvermüllung in Genf muss eine Staatenmehrheit endlich für die Kehrtwende sorgen.

DER SPIEGEL

Most people agree that we can no longer afford to produce trillions of items packaged in a material that will last for generations and that we will only use for a few minutes or seconds before being discarded.

Plastic bottles and bags don't typically get turned into bottles and bags, but the myth that they will is one of the biggest barriers to real solutions.

#EndPlastic #EndFossilFuels

Visual Feature | Beat Plastic Pollution

Around the world, one million plastic drinking bottles are purchased every minute, while 500 billion single-use plastic bags are used worldwide every year. In total, half of all plastic produced is designed to be used only once — and then thrown away.

“United States scientists documented the highest level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in millions of years, at the same time as record wildfires blazed through Canada, lacing the air from the Midwest to the East Coast in a blanket of smoke with enough disease-causing particles to make venturing outside unsafe for people with breathing problems.”
#ClimateCrisis #EndOil #EndPlastic #NaturalGasIsMethane

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-canadian-wildfires_n_647f475be4b091b09c3518c6

U.S. Hits New Atmospheric Carbon Record, While Wildfires Blanket Continent In Smoke

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are now more than 50% higher than the average before the industrial era.

HuffPost

⚠️ "The key to solving the plastics crisis and promoting transformative change may lie in the South Asian region."

As countries prepare to meet this month to work on the first global agreement to end plastic pollution, the perspectives of South Asia must be heard loud and clear.

✍️ Dharmesh Shah reports

🔎 Read here:
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#PlasticsTreaty #INC2 #StopPlasticPollution #plastics #southasia #pollution #asia #environment #endplastic #plasticscrisis

Opinion: An equitable treaty on plastics needs leadership from South Asia

Countries will meet this month to work on the first global agreement to end plastic pollution – South Asia must be heard loud and clear.

The Third Pole

At a tour of ECO Skywater this week in Barbados, I learned that this bottle is made entirely from sugar, with the label printed using food coloring, and it composts in something like 30 days, so no landfill.

So, Coca Cola, and others, get serious about sustainability.

#endplastic