The seat is that of Unesco in Paris and the delegates of 175 Countries are meeting to seek an international treaty on the use of plastics. It is the second of five sessions scheduled by the UN to fight all together the invasion of plastic on land and at sea. The figures of non-treatment, of recycling, make you dizzy. “Producing, consuming and throwing away plastic costs almost nothing 4 trillion dollars the year, says the WWF and theUN he has more or less the same figures in hand. If an agreement cannot be found, other forecasts indicate over 7 trillion dollars of waste by 2040. In 2050, then, "we risk having more plastic than fish in the seas" he said Inger Andersen executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme. It takes a long time to find an agreement, by 2024, when the level of marine pollution, in particular, will have risen further. The islands of plastic that scientists have found in the oceans have made the French President say Emmanuel Macron, that plastic pollution is a “time bomb". Plastic of all kinds was also found in the Seine two days ago; found some bottles dating back to the 60s. A central theme in the discussion is the circumstance that the richest countries they get rid of their waste taking them to the poorest countries.
Plastic affects human health.
Abandoned plastic is a timeless killer. From an environmental and health point of view, bottles, flasks, containers, nets, thrown in the most unthinkable places on the planet, disintegrate and produce nanoplastics that fish and seabirds eat. It is at this point that microplastics enter the human food chain. We now abuse the plastic because it's cheap, it was said in Paris. It's true, but there are advanced recycling systems and processes that see some countries – including Italy – well organised. "It's a climate issue, a nature issue, a health issue," the UN secretary-general tweeted, Anthony Guterres. Macron relaunched: “We need to ensure that the end of plastic pollution creates value. With separate collection, recycling and reuse, we can develop economic activities that create jobs and wealth”.
Basically reviewing the global waste system which in the "folds" remains a good deal for criminal organizations. Of the 460 million tons produced every year a fifth is burned illegally. If and when the international treaty arrives, it will be necessary to speed up the initiatives in the individual States as much as possible to block the catastrophic scenarios by 2040 and 2050. The choices will be made by politics which, by now, with the vertices G7, 8, 20 burdened the institutional archives of pro-climate documents without much operational utility. There will be a Saturday in Paris summit of 60 countries from which (almost certainly) another document will come out that we will read. Hoping that then the world treaty will arrive.
