The world must halve single-use plastics and massively adopt the triptych "reuse, recycling and alternative" to stop this rampant pollution. This roadmap, entitled "Turn off the tap", is published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Two weeks before the second stage, in Paris, of the negotiations that should lead to a legally binding international treaty by the end of 2.
decade. UNEP does not directly mention a target of reducing the production of all plastics at source, which could double by 2040.