Plastics industry voices support for G20 efforts to reduce marine litter

Plastics industry voices support for G20 efforts to reduce marine litter
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The World Plastics Council (WPC), an organization comprised of executives from leading companies that produce plastic resin, has issued a news release saying it welcomes and supports the Marine Litter Action Plan released July 8, 2017, by the G20. The WPC adds that it commends the G20 member states for their commitment to substantially reduce marine litter and its impacts by 2025.

“This urgent issue requires all of us working together, and we look forward to further collaboration with G20 member states to solve this global challenge,” says WPC Chairman Abdulrahman Al-Fageeh, executive vice president, petrochemicals, for SABIC, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

WPC says plastics makers agree with G20 leadership and the growing scientific consensus that the most effective step we can take under this urgent priority is to develop integrated and sustainable waste management infrastructure in rapidly emerging economies where such systems are lacking. Investing in waste collection and treatment facilities and promoting access to these infrastructure resources is the most responsible way to help prevent land-based waste from leaking into our oceans, the WPC says.

“The global plastics industry is already working with leaders in regions where ocean plastic inputs are highest to ensure that waste management infrastructure is a priority,” Al-Fegeeh says. “We look forward to sharing knowledge and expertise with G20 leadership.”

Around the world, plastics makers currently have more than 260 projects either planned, underway or completed to combat marine litter the WPC says. These combined efforts to research and prevent marine debris under the Declaration of the Global Plastics Industry for Solutions on Marine Litter have grown each year since 2011, when it was launched, the organization says. Signed by 70 plastics associations in 35 countries, the declaration focuses on education, public policy, best practices, plastics recycling and recovery, plastic pellet containment and research.

The WPC is represented in the United States by the American Chemistry Council, in Europe by PlasticsEurope and by the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association in the Arabian Gulf. 

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Source: Recycling Today
Plastics industry voices support for G20 efforts to reduce marine litter
<![CDATA[The World Plastics Council (WPC), an organization comprised of executives from leading companies that produce plastic resin, has issued a news release saying it welcomes and supports the Marine Litter Action Plan released July 8, 2017, by the G20. The WPC adds that it commends the G20 member states for their commitment to substantially reduce marine litter and its impacts by 2025. “This urgent issue requires all of us working together, and we look forward to further collaboration with G20 member states to solve this global challenge,” says WPC Chairman Abdulrahman Al-Fageeh, executive vice president, petrochemicals, for SABIC, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. WPC says plastics makers agree with G20 leadership and the growing scientific consensus that the most effective step we can take under this urgent priority is to develop integrated and sustainable waste management infrastructure in rapidly emerging economies where such systems are lacking. Investing in waste collection and treatment facilities and promoting access to these infrastructure resources is the most responsible way to help prevent land-based waste from leaking into our oceans, the WPC says. “The global plastics industry is already working with leaders in regions where ocean plastic inputs are highest to ensure that waste management…