https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/15/plastic-pollution-talks-geneva-treaty. Game, set & match to the petro-states & the petro-chemical & #plastics #industries. A disastrous defeat for the #Earth & #humanity.
'We have missed a historic opportunity': Plastic pollution treaty talks end in deadlock.
High level negotiations between 185 countries over reaching a global agreement to combat plastic pollution ended on Friday, as rival blocs clashed over prioritising a phase out of the material or bettering waste management systems.
Countries urged to ‘hold the line’ in Geneva plastics treaty negotiations | Plastics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/14/geneva-plastics-treaty-negotiations-un-final-day
"Talks continue amid warnings from environmental groups over being ‘sold out’ without meaningful or legally binding measures"
Waste - alongside columns that claim to promote environmental awareness.
A column that is typical of the Guardian (and the Times) - both papers that claim to be promoting awareness of the damage we are doing to the environment and in particular waste.
But they still find the space and have the gall to promote this CRAP.
https://www.theguardian.com/thefilter/2025/aug/14/best-water-bottles-tested-uk
Of course it is ‘life and style’
“There is #plastic in salty sea foam freshly sprayed by crashing waves, in dreamy Japanese mountaintop clouds and in the breath of dolphins. When scientists test Antarctic snow or the ice on Mount Everest, #plastics are there. When, in 2019, an explorer reached the ocean’s greatest depths in the otherworldly Mariana Trench, he found that plastics had beaten him there, miles past the reach of natural light."
"How microbes could help solve the world's plastic pollution crisis"
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-microbes-world-plastic-pollution-crisis.html
"EU ready to do plastic pollution deal 'but not at any cost'"
#EuropeanUnion #EU #Plastic #Plastics
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-eu-ready-plastic-pollution.html
Buoyant, the size of a lentil and almost impossible to recover: how nurdles are polluting the oceans
Millions of the tiny plastic pellets are being washed up on the coast of Kerala in India in the latest in a series of global spills, as plastic treaty talks continue in Geneva
"Global Plastics Treaty: NGOs and businesses decry ‘lack of courage’ for strong agreement"
'‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows
Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.'
https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/05/maddening-proof-plastics-industry-knew-recycling-was-false-solution-in-1974-new-document-shows/
#fossilfuels #plastics #pollution #environment
"‘The ocean is spitting our rubbish back’: Italy’s museum of plastic pollution"
"The global plastics crisis explained in 6 charts"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment
https://grist.org/international/the-global-plastics-crisis-explained-in-6-charts/
“In Geneva, negotiators from 175 nations are trying to hammer out the first-ever legally binding treaty on #plastic #pollution. The urgency of the talks was underscored this week by a new study published in The Lancet. It calls #plastics a ‘grave, growing and under-recognized danger to human and planetary #health.’”