A collaborative step toward ending plastic pollution

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09 March, 2022

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Delphine Garin

联合国塑料污染条约的谈判将于今年启动，这一势头非常强劲. 这是一个独特的机会，可以制定一个全球政策框架，使企业和政府团结起来，共同了解塑料污染的原因，并找到解决问题的明确方法.  

And that’s a wrap! 联合国环境大会第五届会议(第五届)续会闭幕.2)上周是一个决定性的时刻，世界各国领导人通过了一项决议，开始就联合国塑料污染条约进行谈判. 自2014年联合国环境署首届会议以来，塑料污染一直被提上议程. Over the years, the topic has evolved, but in these times of increasing divides, 现在比以往任何时候都更需要采取协调一致的国际办法来理解和解决这一问题.

The facts are there: every year, 300 million tonnes of plastic waste are produced, almost the entire weight of the human population. Only 9% of today’s plastic waste is recycled, and 11 million tons of plastics end up in the ocean every year; that is one garbage truck of plastic dumped into our oceans every minute.

Plastic plays an important role in society: it protects goods from damage, provides food safety, extends food freshness, allows cars to be more fuel-efficient and offers strength, lightweight, long-term durability and low maintenance in buildings.

但塑料污染与当今世界面临的主要可持续性挑战有交集:

  • Climate change: the production of plastics, and in some places open burning of plastic waste, creates a high carbon footprint
  • 自然损失:大量废物最终进入环境，危害野生动物和生态系统
  • 不平等:20亿人无法获得定期废物收集，塑料泄漏主要来自缺乏基本废物管理基础设施的发展中国家

塑料污染是一个复杂的问题，需要在塑料价值链和塑料整个生命周期的多个层面进行干预和合作. 推迟在全球一级采取行动已不再是一种选择，联合国环境大会第5次会议通过了新的决议.2 opens up new opportunities for business to contribute.

We know the challenges are still ahead of us. 联合国条约的谈判目标是在2024年底前完成，这为公共和私人合作提供了一个很好的机会. 因此，世界经济与社会发展会议呼吁政策制定者制定一项全球协议，使各国和企业能够使用一种共同语言，并在整个价值链中开展合作, stimulating investments in material innovation, product design, as well as in capacities, 收集和回收的基础设施和技术——由循环和可持续性的核心原则驱动. At WBCSD, 我们愿为成员国和工商界提供一个讨论平台，检验其中的有效性, analyze data gaps and help rapidly shape a global agreement.

Ambitious companies are already taking action and over the last years, 水务署与各成员就不同的措施合作，以解决一些关键问题:

这是我们几年前向正规博彩十大网站排名提出的问题，导致了创建 Alliance to End Plastic Waste. Seizing the urgency of the issue, and after just three years, with around 90 member companies and partners, 该联盟目前在80个城市拥有超过35个项目(截至2021年底)，并继续推动围绕关键战略支柱的投资:基础设施, Innovation, Education & Engagement, Cleanup (2021 Progress Report).

40% of the global plastics produced is for packaging application. Together with other single-use items, it is what is most littered and visible on our beaches, in rivers and oceans. Societal push-back on single-use plastics, including plastics packaging, has been strong, 并且已经制定了许多政策来防止和减少塑料产品对环境的影响(例如, the Directive on single-use plasticsin the EU).

公司也做出了反应，以确保他们的包装是可持续的-从一种包装材料到另一种. But are we all aligned as to what packaging sustainability is?

Since the start of our Circular Plastics and Packaging project early 2021, 正规博彩十大网站排名将包装的可持续性定义为“最大的循环性和最小的环境足迹”, while avoiding the presence of harmful substances”. 我们已经建立了包装可持续性背后的核心原则，我们将很快发布SPHERE, WBCSD’s Packaging Sustainability Framework. 它提供了一种独特的决策方法，以选择最可持续的选择，为具体的包装需要和交付系统在手, helping companies to reduce their packaging environmental impact.

越来越多的公司正在为塑料的循环经济设定目标并采取行动, in particular through the Ellen MacArthur Foundation Global Commitment市场对塑料的标准化报告和披露指标有明显的需求. 考虑到塑料报告和披露领域仍在兴起和分散，问题是如何根据塑料循环目标评估企业绩效.

With our members and partners, we are working on a set of metrics to report progress on plastic usage, 可在不同地区和行业中一致应用的回收和循环目标. In this area, 与联合国塑料污染条约政府间谈判委员会的政策制定者合作将是达成一致的关键——从全球和国家层面逐步落实到企业层面, calculation methods and terminology across the plastic value chain.

Plastic pollution directly impacts our climate and nature, and disproportionately affects marginalized communities. 我们面临的挑战是全球性的，任何国家或公司都无法独立解决. With their international reach, 企业可以引领变革，并与政府建立合作，以所需的速度和规模推动变革.

Let’s keep the momentum high, let’s collaborate – business and policymakers – to end plastic pollution.

如果您有兴趣加入或了解更多关于塑料和包装政策的工作, please contact Delphine Garin, Manager, Plastics & Packaging, WBCSD: garin@honforjapan.net

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