Update on the EASAC Plastics Report: Towards a Plastics Treaty
Abstract
This commentary updates EASAC’s 2020 report on ‘Packaging Plastics in the Circular Economy’ and links its scientific conclusions to the current negotiations by UN Member States for an international agreement on plastics pollution (the Plastics Treaty). The commentary’s main points about the Treaty’s Zero Draft are as follows.
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