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US signals support for limits on production in UN plastics treaty
Reports that the US government has changed its position and will support virgin plastics production limits in negotiations for the UN’s Global Plastic Pollution Treaty have been met with a vehement response. “The White House’s misguided
reversal in support of plastic production caps is not only impractical but directly harmful to all US manufacturers and will get us no closer to reaching our shared environmental goals,” said Matt Seaholm, President and CEO of Plastics Industry Association. The association’s statement followed Reuters reporting a major policy shift disclosed by a source close to US negotiators in the treaty, which is set for a final round of talks in Busan,
South Korea, in November. According to Reuters, this puts the US in closer alignment with the so-called High Ambition Coalition of countries that has called for “binding provisions to restrain and reduce the production and consumption of primary plastic polymers to sustainable levels”. Seaholm said: “With this decision,
the White House has turned its back on Americans whose livelihoods depend on our industry, as well as on manufacturers in all sectors that rely on plastic materials.” Supporting the change in policy, John Hocevar, Greenpeace USA Ocean’s Campaign Director, said: “The United States’ decision to back a global reduction in plastic production is a
watershed moment in the fight against plastic pollution. This move puts the US on the right side of history, standing with countries that recognize that we cannot recycle our way out of this crisis. It is a step in the right direction that science and justice demand.” Chris Jahn, President and CEO of
the American Chemistry Council, however called it “a lose-lose situation” which puts US jobs at risk and hampers the US negotiators’ position “since other countries know such drastic positions are unlikely to secure the 67 votes needed in the [US] Senate to join the agreement”. �
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