UN will dedicate World Environment Day to fight plastic
The motto is held two months before the new worldwide meeting to discuss the World Agreement to end “Plastic Pollution” and to end the plastics pollution.
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The world should take 516 million tonnes of plastic, a product that contaminated water, food and air, warns He isThis year it will dedicate World Environment Day to deal with plastic.
Marked by world mobilization against plastic pollution, World Environment Day is celebrated on Thursday and this year is South Korea.
This slogan becomes “Combat plastic pollution” And certainly happens Two months before the worldwide new meeting to negotiate the World Agreement to end the pollution of plastics.
On the official page He is It points out that plastic contamination is not only in every corner of the planet but also in human bodiesIn the form of microplastics, and encouraging people, organizations, industries and governments today is the goal of the goal Adopting stable methods that lead to systemic change.
“Plastics pollution is damaging our planet, ecosystems, well -being and atmosphere. Plastic remains stick to rivers, pollute the oceans and endanger the UN Secretary General in a message to World Environment Day.
Antonio recalls that guterres reaches every corner of plastic terraces when rotting in small cellsA, to the depth of the oceans from the top of the mountain of Everest, And even human brains and mother’s milk.
In the optimistic note, the Antonio Guterres highlighted People “growing involvement”, Running steps toward recycling or reducing specific plastics.
Remember August Meeting (5 to 14 in Switzerland) to describe the World Agreement To end the plastics pollution.
“This year we need a prestigious, reliable and affordable agreement. The deal to cover the plastic life cycle from the perspective of circular economies …” he said in his message.
Emphasizes the circular requirement of plastic and not its overall removal
UN Plastic highlights the dispersion but does not make it ghost, Mentioned it The material has brought undeniable benefitsFrom energy saving to physical conservation.
Patricia Carvalho, Coordinator Portuguese agreement (PPP) for plasticsTalking to the agency Lusa Also stresses it The fight is not against plastic, but against plastic abuseA material that is useful in most areas.
Intended to remove the plastic, To guarantee its circular, He said that a few months ago, an important European law was published and that it had controls and goals on packaging and packaging waste.
This is one of the PPP works, Describe the new law, as well as campaigns about online ads and technical visits and plastic, along with other programs.
The optimist, People think that people are more information and attentive, And the stage of the diabolizing of plastic is to understand another. But “it takes more action”, it takes more recycling, whose goals are not fulfilled.
Companies and brands are working on steady solutions
In plastic reduction, he said, There are also attempts to retailerFrom removal of dark packaging to improvement in labels, from complex plastics. “The truth is that they can do more, but they have done so much.”
“There is a way to be made, I think there is a very large conscience and I think that I think that companies and brands are working in search of solutions,” captures the Patricia Carvalhoe, 119 entities in the PPP, 43 staff and 76 institutional and cooperative platform.
It is necessary, justifies, A good selection collection systemIt is fair and comfortable for the population and may be rewarded for recycled. And they are made of More awareness campaignsIt was absent. And that Create procedures that promote prevention and recycling.
And maintains the same optimism to maintain a positive spirit to World Environment Day. “Thinking that everything is bad makes us stable. Any action is important anywhere in the world. It is not plastic on the floor ”.
The idea that the UN would also argue: “The change is done by all of us.”
By 2060, the annual global plastic consumption should be reached more than 1.2 billion tonnes. Every year 11 million in water ecosystems should be spilled E. 13 million tonnes accumulate on earth. Only 9% of the plastic produced are effectively recycled.
World Environment Day was created by UN in 1972.
