Zero ambition to protect health

Sian Sutherland, co-founder of A Plastic Planet and the Plastic Health Council, said: “So far we are seeing zero ambition from UN member states at INC-3 in Nairobi. This complete lack of ambition is being driven by oil producing states that have a vested interest in a status quo where the petrochemical industry pumps plastic into the environment ad-infinitum.

“The world urgently needs the Treaty to set out legally binding starting dates and reduction targets to turn off the plastic tap at source. So far it seems countries seem fearful to even consider them. Those laid out in the Health Scientists’ Global Plastics Treaty are ambitious - some may consider them unreasonable.