Op-Ed: Closing the plastic tap


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Environmental Health News, cilt.1, sa.1, ss.1-2, 2022 (Hakemsiz Dergi)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 1 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Dergi Adı: Environmental Health News
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-2
  • Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In March, the United Nations’ Environment Assembly adopted a landmark resolution, supported by 175 countries, to end plastic pollution with a legally binding treaty.

Negotiations, expected to take two years, began this week. As a group of nine international experts on plastic pollution from eight countries, we’ve recently argued in a letter to the journal Science that this treaty must cap plastic production and regulate the chemicals they contain.

Here’s why.