ASEAN leadership key to the success of global plastic treaty to end plastic pollution

Translations in Tiếng Việt, Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin, Thai, and Bahasa Melayu available here JOINT STATEMENT ASEAN leadership key to the success of global plastic treaty to end plastic pollution CSOs call upon ASEAN leaders to take a strong stance in the ongoing negotiation to develop an international legally binding instrument to address plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. [...] Several reports and studies have shown how petrochemical industries, plastic manufacturing, plastic consumption and usage, plastics recycling, incineration and disposal, are sources of harm to the environment and health of people in Southeast Asia.4 Plastic pollution occurs in many forms from macroplastics in the Mekong River and the seas, to microplastics and additives 1 . [...] To end the transboundary movement of plastic waste and waste colonialism. [...] To increase transparency, traceability, labelling and harmonized disclosure of chemicals in plastics as well as the reporting of pollution through the pollutant release and transfer register. [...] To strengthen research and monitoring of the impacts of plastic on human health and the environment, with an eye towards restoration, compensation, and remediation.