Representatives of 180 countries meet in Geneva, Switzerland under the auspices of the UN: They have 10 days at their disposal to draw up the first global treaty for the reduction of pollution scourge from plastic leading to suffocation on the planet.

This “legally binding” text has been discussed for three years and, as the diplomat leading the talks, Luis Vayas Valdivieso of Ecuador warned, welcoming the representatives of about 600 non -governmental organizations watching the negotiations, “will not come automatically”.

The Geneva Council was baptized CIN5-2 and added to the process of intergovernmental negotiations on the issue after the failure of talks in Bouzan, South Korea at the end of 2024 due to the opposition of a group of oil producers, as geopolitical and commercial tensions.

Yesterday, on the eve of the commencement of the Synod’s work, scientists and non -governmental organizations were warning.

Plastic pollution is a ‘serious increasing and underestimated risk’ for health that costs at least $ 1,500 billion per yearexperts warned in a study published in The Lancet.

Philip Landrigan, a doctor and researcher at Boston College, USA, warned that Vulnerable, and especially children, are more affected by plastic pollution.

In the Congo People’s Republic, “waters, lakes, rivers are contaminated, and plastic microparticles that remain in contaminated waters are responsible for many diseases, especially in children,” explained Robert Kitumaini Chikwanine, Executive Director of NGO (Solidarity for protecting children’s rights) in front of the UN headquarters in Geneva.

And for the economy of the words in the same area, a construction has been placed with a centered copy of the Rodin Obligation Sculpture “The Thought” between a sea of plastic rubbish. Title of “The ACT OF THE CONCERN”. Its creator, Canadian activist Benjamin von Wong wants to force negotiators to think of “the consequences of pollution from plastics on human health”.

The head of the Greenpeace Graham Forbes delegation called for a demonstration in Geneva to stop the “construction of so much plastic to stop the plastic pollution crisis”.

“Our first priority is to reduce the production of plastic,” said Seema Prabhu of the Swiss NGO Trash Hero World, which is mainly active in Southeast Asia countries (Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia).

“There are many petrochemical factories and plastic construction industries” in these countries, which depend on many jobs, “a reason we call a fair transition to reuse, recycling and garbage collection”.