24/07/2025 (Agence Europe) – The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) decided to sound the alarm on Thursday 24 July, less than two weeks before the final round of negotiations on the Global Plastics Treaty in Geneva from 5 to 14 August. Insisting that waste management solutions alone are not enough to solve the plastics crisis, the NGO points to the overproduction and expansion of petrochemicals, which are “devastating communities, polluting ecosystems and accelerating the climate crisis”. Recycling alone will not suffice, insisted the EJF, which is calling for a legally binding treaty whose scope would extend from production to consumption. At the “Nice Wake-Up Call” on 10 June, almost a hundred countries, including those from the EU, called for the adoption of a global target “to reduce the production and consumption of primary plastic polymers to sustainable levels” (see EUROPE 13657/5). (FS)