{"id":14925,"date":"2023-06-02T21:55:21","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=14925"},"modified":"2023-06-02T21:55:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:55:21","slug":"un-experts-warn-of-toxic-tidal-wave-as-plastic-pollutes-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2023\/06\/02\/un-experts-warn-of-toxic-tidal-wave-as-plastic-pollutes-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"UN experts warn of \u201ctoxic tidal wave\u201d as plastic pollutes environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>UN experts warn of \u201ctoxic tidal wave\u201d as plastic pollutes environment <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>United Nations <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The world must beat the \u201ctoxic tidal wave\u201d of plastic polluted that threatens human rights, Un experts said Friday, and called for putting rights at the center of the international treaty on plastic pollution currently under negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The appeal comes ahead of the World Environment Day on June 5.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlastic production has increased exponentially over recent decades and today the world is generating 400 million tonnes of plastic waste yearly,\u201d said David R. Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, and Marcos Orellana, Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights.<\/p>\n<p>The experts outlined how all stages of the\u201d plastic cycle\u201d are harmful to people\u2019s rights to a healthy environment, life, health, food, water and an adequate standard of living.<\/p>\n<p>Plastic production releases hazardous substances and almost exclusively relies on fossil fuels, and plastic itself contains toxic chemicals which put humans and nature at risk. Furthermore, 85 per cent of single use plastics end up in landfills or dumped in the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, incineration, recycling and other \u201cfalse and misleading solutions\u201d only aggravated the threat, they added, noting that \u201cplastic, microplastic and the hazardous substances they contain can be found in the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations continued this week in Paris, following on from an initial session held last year in Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the opening on Monday, UNEP chief Inger Andersen bluntly stated that \u201cwe cannot recycle our way out of this mess\u201d, adding that \u201conly elimination, reduction, a full life-cycle approach, transparency and a just transition can bring success\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources &amp; Courtesy: APP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN experts warn of \u201ctoxic tidal wave\u201d as plastic pollutes environment &nbsp; United Nations &nbsp; The world must beat the \u201ctoxic tidal wave\u201d of plastic polluted that threatens human rights, Un experts said Friday, and called for putting rights at the center of the international treaty on plastic pollution currently under negotiation. &nbsp; The appeal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2805,2297,2299],"tags":[2962,2960,2961,2958,2735,2874,2959],"class_list":["post-14925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-human-rights","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-inger-andersen","tag-june-5","tag-plastic","tag-toxic-tidal-wave","tag-un","tag-unep","tag-world-environment-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14929,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14925\/revisions\/14929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}