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Big Plastic, Big Oil, Big Emissions.
Cap plastic production now.

[CapPlasticNow @CapPlasticNow]

INC-5.2 has failed to deliver a Global Plastics Treaty. But it's not over.

What has become clear in Geneva is that consensus won't deliver a meaningful treaty. A handful of countries - most of them oil producing nations - guided by short-term financial interests and not by the health of their populations and the sustainability of their economies, have blocked the adoption of an ambitious treaty.

🚨 This is their playbook and it will not change.🚨

More than 100 countries - the VAST majority - sought to deliver a treaty that addresses the scale of the crisis. That this ambition can be derailed by a minority of powerful petrostates and lobbysits shows this process is broken, and a way forward requires major overhaul.

Big Oil = Big Plastic.

#inc5_2 #GlobalPlasticsTreaty #plastictreaty

[CapPlasticNow @CapPlasticNow]

This is the scale of the plastics crisis. In 2019, the amount of plastics produced globally would fill New York City's Central Park to a height of 423 meters. Less than 10% of that plastic will EVER be recycled. All the while global production increases year on year. INC-5.2 must #CapPlasticNow.

Read more: https://t.co/v2FWzKSv8x

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Petrostates and well-funded fossil fuel lobbyists are working to derail a deal to cut plastic production ahead of the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations next week.

Via The Guardian: https://t.co/ZZCU2JhbVt

[CapPlasticNow @CapPlasticNow]

4️⃣As delegates convene in Geneva for this year’s negotiations, it’s time to shift course. A meaningful plastics treaty must confront the entire lifecycle of plastics, beginning with a binding cap on production.

#PlasticsTreaty | #INC52

https://t.co/GWYG8xeZRr

[CapPlasticNow @CapPlasticNow]

1️⃣ A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment reveals a stark reality: in 2022, only 9.5% of total plastic waste was recycled—even as global #plasticproduction surged by 8.4% in the same year.

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3️⃣This narrative not only deflects attention from the root causes of the crisis but also protects a system in which plastics—largely derived from fossil fuels—remain a critical revenue stream.

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“If it wasn’t for Saudi and Russia we would have reached an agreement here. Quite a bit of progress has been achieved,” said one European negotiator at #INC5.

“If this wasn’t the last planned meeting, this would have been seen as a great success,” the negotiator added.

Via @FT
https://t.co/rd8fL5Drwj

[CapPlasticNow @CapPlasticNow]

95 countries including the UK, EU, African group and others, emerged as champions of an ambitious #plasticstreaty 🙌. However, petrostates and #BigOil won't agree to cuts which threaten the future of oil production.

@InfluenceMap, found that the petrochemical industry intervened dozens of times on the #INC5 treaty via company statements, social media and consultation responses, and 93% of those were unsupportive of efforts to cut production levels.

https://t.co/EL1h3tgpvj.

[Searious Business @SeariousBiz]

Panama leads a group of 20+ countries with a final rallying cry for a decisive conclusion to the #plastictreaty negotiations at #INC5.

"We need strong leadership. If you are not willing to lead, please leave it to the rest of us and get out of the way."

#GlobalPlasticTreaty

[Center for International Environmental Law @ciel_tweets]

🚨 BREAKING: 220 fossil fuel and chemical industry lobbyists have registered for #PlasticsTreaty
talks — outnumbering every single delegation at
#INC5. Their goal? Protect polluters’ profits.
#KickPollutersOut
👉🏽 Full story: https://t.co/Fc4QoiayKn

[CapPlasticNow @CapPlasticNow]

Only 9% of plastic is ever recycled. The only way out of the plastics crisis infecting our bodies, oceans and environment, is for countries to agree on binding production caps at the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty negotiations in Busan.

#INC5

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Report: Five firms in plastic pollution alliance ‘made 1,000 times more plastic than they cleaned up'.

The five oil and chemical companies which promised to divert plastic from the environment produced 132m tonnes of it, analysis finds.

Read @guardian's full report: https://t.co/lcUe7pmRiE

#INC5 | #GlobalPlasticsTreaty

[CapPlasticNow @CapPlasticNow]

Five years ago, the oil and petrochemicals majors created the 'Alliance to End Plastic Waste', focusing on recycling and waste management as the solution to the plastics crisis.

BUT...the alliance signatories have produced 1000 times more plastic than they collected 🫠

#INC5 #plasticstreaty

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🛢️ Plastic is oil 🛢️

Today, 5.3% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from plastic production. On current plans, that figure will double by 2050. The production of petrochemicals and plastics is expected to be one of the largest growth drivers of oil demand to 2050.

The oil and gas industry and the petrostates have attempted to delay negotiations on the Global Plastics Treaty from the very beginning. It’s time for countries to stand firm and adopt an ambitious treaty that includes capping plastic production.

#INC5 | #GlobalPlasticsTreaty