“For every $ that producers pay for plastic, governments and society will spend at least 10 x as much to remedy its countless negative impacts.” The WWF calls on governments to start negotiating a legally binding global treaty on marine plastic pollution
“Plastic is cheap, versatile and reliable,” says Eirik Lindebjerg, Global Plastics Policy Manager at WWF.the 20th century. From plastic bags to countertops to packaging material to diapers, the seemingly cheap-to-produce and disposable substance has infiltrated our lives to a great extent.
Lindebjerg warns that if business continues as usual, it is estimated that “by 2040 there will be a tripling of pollution entering the ocean to 29 million tonnes, increasing the total stock of plastic in the oceans to 600 million tonnes. This is equivalent to around double the weight of the entire global adult population in 2005.”
The authors of the WWF report believe that plastic has been poorly managed due to the failure of governments “to better understand the real costs” of the material, and has led to “growing ecological, social, and economic costs for countries.” Using plastics is hazardous to health and to the environment both. “Across the lifecycle, plastic is responsible for generating 1.8 billion tonnes of GHG emissions a year. If plastic were a country, it would be the fifth-highest emitter in the world,” Lindebjerg tellsAs has been shown widely in the past few decades, greenhouse gases contribute to ecological disasters “such as shrinking glaciers, flooding, and crop death from more intense droughts, imposing huge costs on governments and society.
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