The negotiations are now in their third of five rounds and have settled on a zero draft of a possible treaty document.
If the gathered nations can agree upon an ambitious treaty to end plastic pollution, it would mean less plastic production, lower carbon emissions (plastics are derived from oil and gas), better recycling and waste collection, more reusable products, and more products made from recycled materialsall of which would create a healthier, cleaner environment.
Right now, that draft looks like a multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blanks list of proposals, ranging from ambitious global bans on all single-use plastic packaging and per-ton plastic production taxes that could eliminate plastic pollution by 2040, to a frankly apathetic approach that would see voluntary reductions decided at a national level (I'm looking at you, Paris Climate Accords).
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