Exxon leads industry fight against UN plans to limit plastic

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : "There's a growing and increasingly overwhelming recognition that recycling alone is never going to address the plastic crisis," said Carroll Muffett, chief executive of the Center for International Environmental Law, which found a 36 per cent increase in attendance from fossil fuel and industry lobbyists in the last round of negotiations in November.
44% : Meanwhile, countries including members of the EU and a handful of oil producers like the United Arab Emirates, along with environmentalists, argue that without binding cuts to plastics production, recycling is an insufficient and uneconomical solution.
43% : "More than 4,000 country delegates and observers will gather in Ottawa, Canada on April 23 in the penultimate round of UN negotiations to broker a deal likened to the 2015 Paris climate agreement for plastics.
39% : Exxon is leading a fightback by the petrochemicals industry against plans to cap the production of plastics ahead of UN talks on the first legally binding treaty aimed at cutting pollution.

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