UN Plastics Treaty Collapses

The United Nations adjourned its plastics summit in Geneva, Switzerland, with no version of a global treaty coming close to reaching “consensus.”

This is great news for the global economy, as radical proposals sought to place taxes and controls on every phase of plastic production and use.

The UN plastics summit tried to follow the climate conference script, where launching into late-night overtime is standard. Bleary eyes, however, induced no parties to alter their positions.

Developing nations and the EU were unable to convince manufacturing and petroleum-producing nations to agree on a draft.

The anti-plastics nations attempted to kill production via a death by a thousand cuts strategy, by calling for the elimination of important chemicals used in plastics production. The pro-plastics nations saw through the ploy and blocked it.