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World will be ‘unable to cope’ with volume of plastic waste in 10 years, warns expert (www.theguardian.com)

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The world faces an unmanageable plastic waste crisis within a decade unless countries agree to significant production cuts, warned Norway’s Anne Beathe Tvinnereim ahead of critical UN treaty talks in South Korea.

Divisions persist between plastic-producing nations, like the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, and a coalition of 60+ countries advocating for reductions across plastics’ life cycle.

Plastic use and waste are projected to triple by 2060, threatening health, biodiversity, and the climate.

The talks aim to address single-use plastics, toxic chemicals, and global production limits, but consensus remains elusive.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Put the onus on the manufacturers. With multinational conglomerates making record profits while the rest of nearly everyone faces steep headwinds just to survive, it should be obvious where to assess the corrective costs required to solve a problem created by environmentally callous manufacturing.

Blaming Consumers for Supply side issues is fucking asinine and also never going to solve the issue. Our government (US) has just refused to take the bulls by the horns for the last 40 years, while climate scientists are hoarse from screaming their warnings from every rooftop.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago

Correct. The problem could be solved overnight if manufacturers were heavily fined for producing such excessive and unnecessary packaging in the first place. Instead however, here in the UK, it's the "consumer" who is expected to act like a dancing monkey and sort out all the waste into different categories and dispense the stuff in one of the wheelie bins that keep getting delivered to my door (wheelie bins which are ironically made from plastic). Makes me want to smash up the wheelie bins and dump them in the plastic recycling wheelie bin.