The new agreement has become a reality after two weeks of negotiations and will now become an addition to the so-called Basel convention from 1989, which regulates how countries may send hazardous waste to other countries – a convention which the united states has not signed. Therefore, it was not news that the united states would write in the present the appendix on the plastic.
during the two-week long meeting, which has now resulted in an agreement.
According to The Guardian criticized the united states representatives of the new rules that you believe will have a significant impact on the level of trade today is conducted with: plastic.
Plastic has become one of the main environmental problems. Since China is in the middle of February of this year stopped all imports of plastics from the united states, much of the plastic that were previously sold to other countries started to be burned in the united states, or sent to low-wage countries in Asia without control.
as together with Canada is singled out as the main spreaders of using plastic products.
Much of the plastic consists of blandplast or plastic, which is poisonous and is never on hand for recovery without being burned or dumped, and often find the way out in the sea. Reports on how the birds and the whales had their stomachs full of plastic have become increasingly common.
The new rules, which become legally binding for a year, now, all such exports have to go through the recipient country’s government can determine if the plastic gets sent or not.
will also affect the united states, which-like other rich countries, henceforth, will not be able to export the plastic to less developed countries without control.
Rolph Payet from the united nations environment programme calls the agreement ”historic” because all the countries that export plastic now have to keep an eye on where the plastic goes after it has left their own country.
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