Wherever the human heart is healed, justice gains a foothold, peace holds sway, an ecological habitat is protected, there the human and earth community already reflect in fragments, the visage of the trinitarian God.
-- Elizabeth Johnson
World leaders met on Wednesday to draft an agreement to reduce plastic pollution. Though in early stages, the treaty has already been hailed as “the most significant environmental multilateral deal since the Paris accord” by UN Environment Programme Executive Director Inger Andersen
- What’s so significant about it? The broad strokes include goals to:
- Make packaging more sustainable (no more clamshells, we hope)
- Ramp up recycling (Only 9% of plastic has ever been recycled, per the UN Environment Programme.)
- Do something about microplastics, the insidious little plastic pieces that sneak into water
- Limit the overall production of plastic
The treaty won’t be fully hashed out until 2024—which is actually a fast timeline for global agreements—but whatever makes it to the final draft will be legally binding to keep loopholes to a minimum. Continue here....
-- Jamie Wilde
