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While a legally binding agreement isn’t expected until 2024, the details being negotiated by diplomatic stakeholders are already expected to have implications for the recycling sector.
Published Dec. 7, 2022 | Megan Quinn
As the United Nations moves forward with negotiating a global treaty to end plastic waste, environmentalists, recyclers and plastics industry representatives say they’re encouraged to see UN member countries enthusiastic about ending plastic pollution [but] split over whether [to] focus on mandatory goals that apply to all countries or on country-specific goals that have voluntary components. UN member countries themselves left last week’s meeting in Uruguay with the same split, according to Reuters.
Last week’s UN negotiations were just the first of five planned meetings to craft a legally binding agreement by 2024, and it could be years before it’s clear how the treaty will affect the waste and recycling industry. … “The next stage of negotiations will be more challenging, as countries must agree on the technical measures and rules,” said Eirik Lindebjerg, the World Wildlife Fund’s global plastics policy manager, in an email. The next meeting will be May 2023 in Paris…...
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