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Who wants the skin of the international plastic treaty? Until August 14, 183 national and regional delegations meet between the United Nations walls to set up a legally binding instrument in order to stem plastic pollution. After the failure of the recent discussions in Busan, in South Korea – initially planned as the final cycle -, Geneva will have the heavy task of being able to integrate an objective of falling production at the source of plastic. If the impossibility of reaching an agreement is not fully attributable to the many lobbies present, their presence was very noticed in South Korea.
On the provisional list of the participants sent by the United Nations Environment Program (UNP), Time was able to identify at least 307 lobbyists close to the plastic industry. It is more than the counting of the Center for International Environmental Law (Ciel), which arrives in total of 234. A low estimate since the sky does not include consumer goods companies (such as Coca-Cola, Nestlé or Lego) or packaging manufacturers.