Ending Plastic Pollution

Approximately 11 million tons of plastic waste are dumped in the oceans annually. If nothing is done, it is estimated that the global plastic waste that is scattered in the oceans will quadruple by 2050. Plastic pollution is an extensive environmental problem and the production of new plastic and the leakage of landfill waste into nature causes climate change, endangers human health and threatens biodiversity and negatively affects ecosystems worldwide.

The lack of global agreements, lack of regulations and transparency and responsibility in the entire chain from production to plastic waste has created an unsustainable situation on a global level.

In this project, the Environmental Investigation Agency wants to combat plastic pollution by strengthening regulations and an ambitious global binding plastic agreement.

The project is supported with SEK 5,760,000.

What does the project deliver?

– Negotiators and civil society are strengthened and equipped with knowledge of the content of the global plastic agreement in order to best understand and influence the content of the agreement.

Why do we support this project?

There is a momentum to achieve a decisive systemic shift in how we produce, consume, use and manage plastic waste. However, the window of opportunity to act is short, as negotiations on the content of the plastics agreement will begin in November this year and run until the end of 2024. For the agreement to be strong, civil society and negotiators must be a driving force and act as a counterforce to the resourceful plastic lobby. The project will make this possible.