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A new report warns that the amount of plastic consumed globally could nearly double by 2050 if urgent action is not taken.
Sky News quoted the Back to Blue group as saying in the report: More single-use plastic waste is being produced than ever before, and it is expected that the amount of plastic consumed in the G20 countries will reach 451 million tons annually by 2050, which is twice the level of 2019. almost.
Last March, 175 countries agreed to work together on a United Nations treaty to tackle plastic pollution, which is expected to become effective by the end of 2024.
According to the report, a global ban on non-essential, single-use plastic items would be the most effective policy in this context, but it expected plastic consumption to remain approximately one and a half times higher in 2050.
Experts fear that the treaty to tackle plastic pollution is too weak to reduce consumption, and linked its success to the presence of global coordination and political will at the negotiating table.
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