Subject: BFFP Newsletter 🌍📰 : Join press briefing on Global Plastic Treaty

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August 22, 2024

Photo Credit: Ezra Acayan, on assignment for Break Free From Plastic

Join: Press Briefing Ahead of Plastics Treaty Talks This August

On August 24-28, 2024, UN member-state delegations and experts will gather at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok for technical expert group meetings to help advance the work of the committee tasked to develop an international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution. In line with this, the global #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement and its allies will hold a press briefing on August 23, 2024, from 2:00 p.m. (GMT+7). Panelists are expected to discuss the urgent need to address problematic plastic products and packaging such as highly polluting flexible multi-layered plastic sachets (commonly used by international fast-moving consumer goods companies).


Experts on the panel are also expected to talk about chemicals of concern in plastics and financial mechanisms for a robust international agreement; and the need for transparency and inclusion of civil society and rightsholder groups in treaty development processes.

Pre-Intersessional Panel Discussion: Enabling Reuse and Refill Solutions

In response to the plastic pollution crisis, cities and communities are revitalizing and re-establishing reuse and refill systems that provide environmental and socioeconomic benefits while reducing single-use plastics in circulation. This panel will present the opportunities, challenges and lessons learned from reuse and refill initiatives across the Southeast Asia region. Reuse practitioners and experts will highlight the scalability and viability of these business models and the positive impacts on cities and communities.


The event is targeted at technical experts and member state delegates attending the INC Intersessional work. It also includes a photo exhibition focused on the lifecycle of sachets, as a problematic, avoidable plastic format, and reuse solutions from southeast Asia.


Why the Global Plastics Treaty Matters: A Case for Uganda

Plastics were welcomed as wonder materials believed to ease life with cheaper, convenient and flexible materials to use. However, plastics have managed to outpace our control and have colonized our day-to-day lives, and became an increasing threat worldwide.


Plastic pollution has caused the most visible damage to the environment today and continues to pose a serious threat to human health and burden economies.


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