Author: Charlotte Röber, VinylPlus Managing Director

As the dust settles after the fifth round of negotiations (INC-5) for a Global Plastics Treaty in Busan, South Korea, the world continues to work toward a binding international agreement to eliminate plastic pollution. As the chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso rightly noted during the closing remarks of INC-5, “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed.” While some may view the lack of immediate consensus as a setback, the reality is that progress has been made on key topics. With such an ambitious mandate, five rounds of negations is insufficient to address this global challenge. Far from failing, the negotiations highlight…