Plastics are made of oil or fracked ethane. The #FossilFuel industry is looking to plastics as their future income stream. Not surprisingly:
At negotiations to end #PlasticPollution, delays "manufactured" by oil-rich countries "left little time to discuss the actual ins and outs of the future #plastics treaty — including whether to reduce plastic production, how to fund the implementation of the treaty, and whether to ban certain single-use plastic products."
Frontline communities urgently need an end to #PlasticPollution .
"Communities on the frontlines of any part of the #plastic lifecycle, from oil extraction to trash dumps and everywhere in between, are hit with a trifecta of injustice: plastic pollution, social #injustice, and the #climate crisis. The plastic deluge that is left after every climate-crisis-fuelled storm only reinforces this point."
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/frontline-communities-need-ambitious-global-plastics-treaty
"The world will be “unable to cope” with the sheer volume of plastic waste a decade from now unless countries agree to curbs on production, the co-chair of a coalition of key countries has warned ahead of crunch talks on curbing global #PlasticPollution.
Progress has stalled over a row about the need for cuts to the $712bn plastics industry.
The final round of talks, which starts on Monday and is due to end on 1 December, is critical."
"The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (including ExxonMobil, Dow, Shell, TotalEnergies and ChevronPhillips, promised to divert 15m tonnes of plastic waste in five years to the end of 2023, by recycling, and creating a circular economy.
The data reveals the five companies alone produced 132m tonnes of polyethylene (PE) and PP (polypropylene) in five years – more than 1,000 times the weight of the 118,500 tonnes of waste plastic the alliance has actually removed."
"The new data was revealed as delegates prepared to meet in Busan, South Korea, to hammer out the world’s first treaty to cut plastic pollution: a legally binding global agreement to tackle plastic pollution across the entire plastics life cycle.
But the talks, which have been subject to heavy lobbying by the alliance and fossil fuel companies, are on a knife-edge in a row over whether caps to global plastic production will be included in the final treaty."
"Carbon Brief analysis shows that without any agreement to cut plastic production, emissions from plastics could consume half of the remaining carbon budget for limiting warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels."
https://www.carbonbrief.org/five-charts-why-a-un-plastics-treaty-matters-for-climate-change/
Plastics currently cause triple the emissions of aviation.
If, for climate reasons, you're not hot on flying: I'm with you!
Let's also work on plastics.
Plastics are everywhere, so you can tackle it everywhere.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/five-charts-why-a-un-plastics-treaty-matters-for-climate-change/
I find the title of the chart very disturbing.
Billions of people are responsible for 2.7 plastics and they can't just ditch it but require manufacturers of packaging and other goods to be forced by law to stop.
While 0.9 aviation is caused by how many <Millions> individuals and their own personal choices? Let's force them to stop. Today.
That Carbonbrief chose that particular chart title makes me sick. Looking for an alibi for their next flight, are they? NIMBY engraved in golden, friendly letters on their forehead, have they?
Sorry. But this is really sick, entitlement, thoughtless, adolescent, economics-type of "thinking".
Interesting that you read it that way. I saw the graph and said to myself, Boy so many of us understand the importance of staying on the ground and work to curb things like private jet use, and here is something that's an even bigger problem. Puts things in perspective. Need to walk (not fly) and chew gum.
I find it very peculiar by those 2 authors at CarbonBrief to see any importance in this comparison at all.
Look around you office, your kitchen, your bathroom, your laboratory, your server room, your gardening tools, your schoolbus, your train your I dunno, everything. And count the pieces that obviously contain some form of plastics.
Let alone the groceries in your pantry.
Before 1950, there was no plastics at all. Today, it is everywhere and in use and subsequently trashed by almost every human on earth.
And the 2 authors have the audacity to compare the decadent addiction of a few entitled millions flying around the globe for mostly silly purposes
to this fundamental building block of our tech civilisation which plastics has become?
They have once source: fossil fuels.
And they are pushed by the same people.
But yes, of course you are right: the benefits are not evenly spread, and certainly we know who bears the worst of the consequences.
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