Ministers or representatives of sixty countries debated this Saturday, May 27 at UNESCO solutions to the global plastic crisis. Paris is hosting the second round of negotiations from Monday 29 to Friday 2 June, out of the five planned.
Two-thirds of this global production has a short lifespan and becomes waste to be managed after one or a few uses. 22% are abandoned (landfills, open incineration or discharge into nature) and less than 10% is recycled. The stakes are high because plastic from petrochemicals, is everywhere: packaging, clothing, construction fibers.