deal<\/a> aimed at tackling plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.<\/p>\nThe main points of discussion include reducing the production levels of single-use plastics, banning some of the most harmful chemicals found in plastics, establishing universal guidelines for the design of plastic products, and securing financing for these initiatives.<\/p>\n
However, there has been strong opposition from a group of oil-producing nations, including Russia and Saudi Arabia. They prefer that the discussions focus not on reducing production, but rather on improving waste management and increasing recycling efforts.<\/p>\n
At the EU level, Commissioner for the Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy, Jessika Roswall, is attending the Ministerial Segment of the negotiations.<\/p>\n
Globally, 460 million tonnes of plastic are produced every year, and 81% of plastic products end up as waste in less than a year. <\/p>\n
Only 9% of this waste is recycled, more than one-fifth is dumped in nature, and almost half ends up in landfill sites. <\/p>\n
Post-consumer recycled plastics accounted for 10.1% of the European plastics production, according to Plastics Europe.<\/p>\n
How are plastics impacting nature?<\/p>\n
As plastic consumption continues to rise, it is projected that mismanaged waste will increase by 47% and plastic leakage into the environment will rise by half by 2040. <\/p>\n
In the EU, there has already been a 9% increase in the unintended release of microplastics into the environment. <\/p>\n
Approximately 85% of marine litter originating from land-based sources is plastic, which poses risks to marine life and human health through the food chain. <\/p>\n
In addition to environmental pollution, plastic production significantly contributes to climate change. <\/p>\n
In the EU, annual emissions related to plastic production total around 13.4 million tonnes of CO2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT In Europe, around three-quarters of plastic is used mainly for non-packaging purposes, including construction, furniture, textiles and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,10805,3488,10804,66],"class_list":["post-64436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-microplastics","tag-plastic","tag-plastic-waste","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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