waking nightmare on France Inter…

It is very cruel for a ” addicted » from France Inter to come to destroy a monument of the French public radio favorite. Unfortunately The telephone rings titled ” Too much plastic: whose fault is it? “, on Wednesday November 27, resembled a very long waking nightmare like “ leather and latex “. A feeling that will not necessarily be shared by the hundreds of thousands of listeners who have forgotten that their radio is made of plastic… Between the “ we are all going to die » because of polystyrene (PS) yogurt pots – the unscrewing Franco-French star of plastics – and the “ re-use » as a remedy for all the ills of the planet, there were perhaps some nuances to be made. Yet seasoned and always remarkable in her mastery of exchanges, Fabienne Sintes seemed overwhelmed by the influx of comments that were sometimes apocalyptic, approximate to say the least, when they were not entirely false. Meeting from November 25 to December 1 in Busan, South Korea, for the fifth and final intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC-5) of the international treaty on plastic pollution under the aegis of the Organization of United Nations (UN), the global plastics industry must submit its report on this complex and, frankly, geopolitical issue at the end of the week. Magazine Packaging et Plastics & Rubbers Magazine largely set the terms of the negotiations and mentioned the risk of failure of the negotiations.

Yogurt pot

During the 38 minutes of the program, it might have been wise to point out that the future of plastics mainly concerns Asia and Africa. Already out of the picture, the European Union has become, over the years, a secondary market. It is dismaying, debate after debate, to see the issue of plastic systematically reduced to yogurt pots and bottles. Certainly, packaging represents 40% of the sector's outlets, to take only the case of France, but it does not represent ” what » 40%. As pointed out, with its customary relevance, by Nicolas Garnier, general delegate of Amorce, as well as Fabienne Sintes, plastics are present absolutely everywhere. There are perhaps rational explanations that do not relate solely to the desire to destroy the planet. It is not a question here of denying the issues of pollution and health safety and the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), but simply of recalling that there are laws, standards, figures, statistics, reports and other analyzes which establish a framework and provide factual benchmarks. There's even something called extended producer responsibility (EPR) to echo a listener's question. Participating in the show, in addition to Nicolas Garnier, were Marine Bonavita (Zero Waste France) and Manuel Burnand (Federrec).

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