With some of the world’s biggest corporates agreeing to develop a treaty to bring an end to the scourge of plastic pollution early this year, anti-plastic advocates are keeping a watchful eye on firms if they will truly start to reduce their dependence on plastic production.
“We remain hopeful but also cautious, especially with corporates which have made commitments before but later moved goal posts, when the targets they’ve made were not achievable,” said Miko Aliño, project coordinator for corporate accountability of Break Free From Plastic (BFFP), an anti-plastics movement of more than 11,000 organisations around the world. Read more…