A Ban on Soy Sauce Fish? It’s Not Such a Bad Idea
If we want to restrict plastic use, we don’t need a UN conference. The solution starts much closer to home.
To wean us off plastics we could start with the humble fish-shaped soy sauce bottle.
Photographer: Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle/Getty Images
At different ends of the planet, the past week has seen separate examples of how we’re failing to get to grips with our plastics problem.
In Geneva, attempts to hammer out a United Nations deal to end plastic pollution fell apart for the second time in nine months, after the US joined a bloc dominated by oil exporters in refusing to countenance a cap on production or regulation of potentially toxic additives. That’s a sign of how global environmental negotiations are increasingly getting bogged down in a procedural morass.