Plastic Taxation in Europe

Tackling Plastics Pollution and Waste at the global, regional and national Levels

On 2 March 2022, 175 member states of the United Nations (UN) endorsed a resolution at the fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi to create an intergovernmental negotiating committee to commence work on crafting a legally binding international agreement by the end of 2024 to tackle plastics waste and pollution. While details of the exact scope of this “plastic treaty” have yet to be delimited, it is significant that the UN resolution has received strong multilateral support – crucially, from major plastic-producing member states such as the United States and China – and, if signed and ratified by the UN member states, the treaty promises to be a landmark, first-of-its-kind global agreement designed to address the full lifecycle of plastic, including its production, design and disposal, with the stated objective of reducing plastic waste and pollution.

Source WTS

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