Industry Plays Over-sized Role in UN Ottawa Negotiations
Industry Plays Over-sized Role in UN Ottawa Plastics Negotiations The United Nations has taken up the problem of plastics and is in the midst of negotiating an international treaty ostensibly to begin to limit the production, distribution, use, and disposal of the overwhelming amount of plastics in our waterways, land, waste sites, and the bodies of both humans and animals. As can be expected, industry played an oversized role , having significant and virtually unencumbered access to conference proceedings while activists, academic researchers, and environmental groups were held at the fringes of the conference. Companies like Dow and ExxonMobil. These companies are eyeing extraordinary profits from the production and sale of plastics, the burden of managing plastic waste is left to us - tax payers and the governments we elect to try to dispose of the waste. Corporations like Dow and ExxonMobil went all in on promoting themselves as being crucial to the life and health of h