Global Plastics Treaty Negotiation

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Creating a Global Package to Solve the Problem of Plastics

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Since 2022 , policymakers in the United Nations , representing over 170 countries, have been negotiating a legally binding Global Plastics Treaty addressing the full lifecycle of plastics.

The treaty shares many of the mechanisms present in the 1987 Montreal Protocol , which eventually led to the phasing out of CFCs, the chemicals responsible for ozone depletion.

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