Presentation 19/12

18 December 2023
19:16

Droughts (negative impact on both food production and human health), wildfires, heatwaves.
Repercussions include death , lack of food etc.

Greece, Italy, Spain (Tenerife Fires)

Excessive rainfall (floods can cause disease transmission and infrastructural damage). Diseases
move around more quickly and also big damage.

Human health difficulties can raise mortality rates, reduce food availability, and reduce labour
productivity. Ecosystem disruption could lead to the extinction of many plant and animal
species..

Waste Disposal

Cities in the global south are disproportionately impacted. Many low income countries have very
limited waste disposal infrastructure and inadequate management of plastic waste is
exacerbated by the import of waste from high income countries.
The Ganges network forms the second-largest plastic polluting catchment in the world, with
over 0.12 million tonnes of plastic discharged into marine ecosystems per year, and is among
14 continental rivers into which over a quarter of global waste is discarded.

Also plastic waste that is incinerated has effects on population via plastic in air. Leads to
health difficulties.

UN SDG 14

REDUCE MARINE POLLUTION

By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, in particular from
land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution.

US EPA draft strategy plastic

Specific actions the EPA proposes that could relate to food packaging include:

Reducing the production and consumption of single-use, unrecyclable, or frequently

littered plastic products.
Develop or expand the capacity to maximize the reuse of materials.

 Reducing the production and consumption of single-use, unrecyclable, or frequently

littered plastic products.
 Develop or expand the capacity to maximize the reuse of materials.
 Explore the possible ratification of the Basel Convention and encourage the
environmentally sound management of scrap and recyclables traded with other
countries (FPF reported).
 Identify and implement policies, programs, technical assistance, and compliance
assurance actions that effectively prevent trash/microplastics from getting into
waterways or remove such waste from waterways once it ended up there.
  Increase and coordinate research on micro- and nanoplastics in waterways and
oceans.

EU Plastic Strategy

The plastics strategy aims to protect our environment and reduce marine litter, greenhouse
gas emissions and our dependence on imported fossil fuels. It will support more sustainable
and safer consumption and production patterns for plastics.
The plastics strategy also aims to transform the way plastic products are designed,
produced, used and recycled in the EU.

Making recycling profitable for business

Curbing plastic waste
Spurring global change
new rules on port reception facilities to tackle sea-based marine litter
Innovation
working with our international partners to devise global solutions and develop international
standards on plastics