Plastics Ban Treaty Crossroads: Can INC-5 Deliver?

Plastics Ban Treaty Crossroads: Can INC-5 Deliver?

Policymakers are not holding back their feelings that, more than any other issue, the production of plastic has divided INC participants. Some argue that no government will attack the profitable hyper-consumption paradigm fueled by the pivot from petroleum as fuel to petroleum as a source for raw materials for plastic product manufacturing (plastics is the solid form of petroleum), and a lot of compromise will have to be made to come out with a treaty.