Fact Check: “Plastic pollution is the issue, not plastics themselves”  

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The day after INC-5 closed with no Treaty signed  a delegate from a petro-state stated: “If you address plastic pollution, there should be no problem with producing plastics, because the problem is the pollution, not the plastics themselves.” This statement seems intuitively true, plastic pollution is an issue, and plastics alone don’t cause problems – […]

Earth Action grants access to global plastic database ahead of INC 5

Earth Action has today granted all governments access to its global plastic data platform Plasteax. Plasteax has been in use for over three years, offering reliable plastic production, leakage, and waste management metrics to a variety of high-profile organisations. Its data is already in use by teams at select Fortune 500 companies, leading sustainability consultancies […]

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