The Global Plastic Pollution Treaty

The UN has approved a ground-breaking agreement to produce the first global plastic pollution treaty on March 2, 2022.

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The UN Finally Agrees to "Clean Up" Plastic Production

The United Nations has approved a ground-breaking agreement to produce the first global plastic pollution treaty on March 2, 2022. It has been named the most critical environmental deal since the Paris climate accord of 2015.

State members had meetings for over a week in Nairobi, Kenya, to design an outline of a pact to fix the rise in plastic pollution. The environmental disaster goes as high as the mountain tops down to taking up fish space in the ocean waters.

After implementing a resolution to form a legitimately binding plastic pollution treaty, government officials cheered as they punched the air. It is to be finalized by 2024.

President of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), Espen Barth Eide, said, "We are creating history today. We should be very proud of the treaty as plastic pollution has become an epidemic. We're formally on track for a solution with today's declaration."

Plastic Pollution Production

According to the UNEA, the solution is "the most important environmental agreement since the Paris accord." The intergovernmental committee had negotiated a binding treaty that would significantly affect economies and businesses worldwide.

A treaty that sets restrictions on the production, design or use would impact chemical and oil companies that produce raw plastic and consumer goods companies that make and sell millions of products in single-use packaging.

It would also considerably impact the US, China, Japan, and India, the most significant economies for producing plastic.

While UN representatives celebrated the agreement to have the treaty to reduce plastic, there are still many disagreements about the final pact.

According to an IPSOS poll, there has been a ton of public support for a plastic pollution treaty, and representatives were quick to celebrate what they'd accomplished in Nairobi.