Demonstrators marched from Parliament Hill down Wellington Street to the Shaw Centre on April 21, 2024.
Sunday's march and rally took place ahead of intergovernmental talks being held this week in Ottawa, intended to come up with a legally binding agreement on plastic pollution.Demonstrators marched Sunday from Parliament Hill down Wellington Street to the Shaw Centre, where talks are set to take place this week on how to address global plastic pollution.
Key demands include reducing pollution across the entire life cycle of plastics by limiting their production, as well as supporting non-toxic recycling and implementing regulations on plastic waste trade. "The rate at which we are all consuming plastics is simply unsustainable, and it is only by rallying together that we can solve it," he said.
"A certain number of countries are, I would say, blocking progress and very much supported by the petrochemical and plastics industry who don't want to see change," said Karen Wirsig, Environmental Defence's senior program manager for plastics.Still, Wirsig would like to see more. Aeshnina Azzahra, 16, travelled from Indonesia where she is an activist trying to clean up plastics from local rivers.
"The developing countries — especially in my country, Indonesia — we don't really have good waste management. We still have a lot of waste problems, plastic problems. So please, don't add more burden to us."Many people don't realize how pervasive microplastics in particular can be, said Tom Cosgrove, chief creative and content officer at earthday.org.
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