{"id":16133,"date":"2025-01-19T01:05:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T01:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16133"},"modified":"2025-01-19T01:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T01:05:54","slug":"u-n-plastics-treaty-talks-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16133","title":{"rendered":"U.N. Plastics Treaty Talks Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;only about 4 percent of plastic wastes are currently mismanaged in the United States. That figure rises to an average of 6 percent for developed countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poorer countries are doing much worse: The figures for mismanaged wastes in China, India, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa are 27, 46, 42, and 64 percent, respectively. These same regions are responsible for the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aaz5803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bulk<\/a>&nbsp;of the plastic wastes flowing down their rivers into the oceans&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2018\/04\/22\/earth-day-and-the-plastics-pollution-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">two strategies<\/a>&nbsp;for tackling such environmental open access tragedies: privatization or regulation. In the rich countries like the United States, most wastes, including plastics, are picked up and disposed by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2016-11\/documents\/2014_smmfactsheet_508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public or commercial garbage haulers<\/a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wastedive.com\/news\/us-waste-recycling-market-waste-business-journal-2023\/650693\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$91 billion<\/a>&nbsp;waste management industry. Most Americans take responsibility for their wastes by paying local taxes or fees to bury them in landfills, burn them, or recycle them. As a result, relatively little plastic from the U.S. ends up in the oceans.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/opinion\/banning-plastic-bags-is-actually-terrible-for-the-environment-and-makes-us-sicker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bans<\/a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2015\/09\/01\/plastic-bags-are-good-for-you\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plastic bags<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nationalgeographic.org\/2012\/02\/13\/bottled-water-is-silly-but-so-is-banning-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">water bottles<\/a>&nbsp;in this country are largely instances of symbolic moral preening.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/12\/06\/u-n-plastics-treaty-talks-collapse\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/12\/06\/u-n-plastics-treaty-talks-collapse<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;only about 4 percent of plastic wastes are currently mismanaged in the United States. That figure rises to an average of 6 percent for developed countries.<br \/>\nPoorer countries are doing much worse: The figures for mismanaged wastes in China, India, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa are 27, 46, 42, and 64 percent, respectively. These same regions are responsible for the bulk of the plastic wastes flowing down their rivers into the oceans&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are two strategies for tackling such environmental open access tragedies: privatization or regulation. In the rich countries like the United States, most wastes, including plastics, are picked up and disposed by public or commercial garbage haulers in the $91 billion waste management industry. Most Americans take responsibility for their wastes by paying local taxes or fees to bury them in landfills, burn them, or recycle them. As a result, relatively little plastic from the U.S. ends up in the oceans. Bans on plastic bags and water bottles in this country are largely instances of symbolic moral preening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/12\/06\/u-n-plastics-treaty-talks-collapse\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[103,272,355,314,2038,1589,1041],"class_list":["post-16133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-environment","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-plastics","tag-treaties","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16134,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16133\/revisions\/16134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}