Article 6YTVX ‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

‘Total infiltration’: How plastics industry swamped vital global treaty talks

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Damian Carrington Environment editor
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Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet

Being surrounded and yelled at about misrepresenting reality" is not how serious United Nations-hosted negotiations are meant to proceed. But that is what happened to Prof Bethanie Carney Almroth during talks about a global treaty to slash plastic pollution in Ottawa, Canada. The employees of a large US chemicals company formed a ring" around her, she says.

At another event in Ottawa, Carney Almroth was harassed and intimidated" by a plastic packaging representative, who barged into the room and shouted that she was fearmongering and pushing misinformation. That meeting was an official event organised by the UN. So I filed the harassment reports with the UN," said Carney Almroth. The guy had to apologise, and then he left the meeting. He was at the next meeting."

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