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Unidentified speaker urges global action on waste, fast fashion and plastics
Summary
An unidentified speaker at a United Nations event called for governments, businesses and consumers to accelerate action on the global waste crisis, highlighted harms from textile production and urged a legally binding treaty on plastic pollution, citing disproportionate impacts on low-income communities and waste pickers.
An unidentified speaker (role/title not specified) urged governments, businesses and consumers to accelerate action on the global waste crisis and to translate international commitments into concrete policies and accountability measures.
"The waste crisis is an issue that goes to the heart of how we produce and how we consume," the speaker said, adding that textile production uses "thousands of chemicals, many of them harmful to people and the environment." The speaker also said that every second "the equivalent of one garbage truck full of clothing is incinerated or sent to landfill."
The speaker placed particular emphasis on fast fashion and textiles as a visible driver of…
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