“Plastic is killing us, slowly, slowly, surely, devastating our ocean and slowly poisoning us with micro or nano-plastics”, says Rosalie Mann, president of the No More Plastic association. We are aware it is a plague for the environment: “today, the oceans are in danger, choked by the plastic that flows from our homes and our fashion of life, in the rivers, on the beaches and to the depths of the waters of the globe.” But also, since the founder reminds us that when the ocean dies, so does our planet, and us along with it. Plastic pollution has also become a public health issue. “A body of studies and experts agree to highlight the toxicity of this material and the seriousness of the pathologies it causes: infertility and immunity problems, chronic diseases such as diabetes, Crohn’s disease, endometriosis, breast and colon cancer, and childhood cancer.” This is why it’s so important to tackle this issue head-on and implement all the necessary measure to eliminate it. Everyone can, on their own scale, avoid buying plastic.
Faced with this issue, the government has set the objective of moving towards 100% recycled plastic by 2025. This solution is not a real solution according to Rosalie Mann. “Continuing to advocate the recycling of plastic cannot be a short objective, if we understand a little bit the problem of plastic pollution. It should be understood that plastic pollution begins long before a plastic product becomes waste or ends up in nature. It begins with the creation of plastic and continues throughout its life cycle through the use we make of it, by wearing it or washing it, for example. And this pollution continues in nature when plastic lives its second life as waste.” End take? “When we recycle plastic, we restart a cycle of plastic pollution. Recycled plastic is nothing but recycled poison, which continues to poison…”
It is for all these reasons that the No More Plastic association is calling for mobilization, while a global treaty against plastic pollution by the United Nations Environment Assembly will propose in 2024, after multiple sessions of negotiations spread over two years, and assembling 193 States, a final and binding text on this issue. “This commitment – the largest since the Paris Climate Agreement – could mark a historic turning point in the fight against plastic. This is a unique opportunity to achieve a real change that is essential, today and for the future. We must seize this opportunity and act decisively to remedy this situation, and avoid making it a missed act,” says Rosalie Mann. On a dedicated page, which is awaiting the maximum number of signatures, the association asks “that we immediately stop prioritizing, financing the process aimed at recycling this material in favor of already operational technology, which only requires political will to be implemented on a large scale, such as the destruction of plastic waste by enzymes.”
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