With the growing crisis of plastic pollution nearly every country in the world is suffering, nations arranged a solution to coming out with the universal issue of plastic. Despite this, the U.S. will still be affected by the agreement because countries will be able to block the dumping the mixed or unrecyclable plastic wastes from other nations. By prohibiting nations from exporting plastic waste that is not ready for recycling, the amended treaty will make it much more difficult for wealthy countries to send their plastic waste to poorer countries; currently, only about 9% of plastic is recycled.
UN estimates there are 100 million tons of plastic waste in the world’s oceans
The UN estimates there are 100 million tons of plastic waste in the world’s oceans well for more we go to exporter of plastic mostly to developing nations and this has created a global crisis of waste in countries south and central Asia as South America and Africa explain how this entire process works is it possible to these developing nations to deny to accept this plastic waste.
The problem is “it’s much easier to block something than to get something passed,” University of Southern Main environmental policy researcher Travis Wagner told EHN. At the federal level, this is especially true. He went on to say that the federal government looked into anti-plastic legislation as early as the 1970s when bottle bills were being passed across the country.
Plastic Pollution Act
However, the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act, a new proposed federal bill, offers potential solutions and could transform the United States from a fact to a much-needed ally in the global movement against plastics. Such environmental action could help to put an end to the United States’ fractured approach to plastics, shifting the burden from consumers to plastic manufacturers.
Since the federal government first considered taking a national stance on plastics about half a century ago, the problem has only gotten worse.