Ronald Steenblik: No. 11: Call on governments to stop subsidizing plastic polymer plants, and to cease providing export credits and other government-mediated finance for such plants.

No. 11: Call on governments to stop subsidizing plastic polymer plants, and to cease providing export credits and other government-mediated finance for such plants.

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Can we reward for switching to paper?

You mean subsidize paper and cardboard? If so, I’d rather favor those materials through a tax on plastic, which is one of the proposals supported by many countries participating in the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations currently nearing their conclusion (scheduled for the end of this year).

I’m in a timber and paper industry district and including them would help democrats win more. Trees are renewable.

Could you please define what you mean by “including them”? In what?

I have no way of explaining without sounding like a dick. Things need packaging. Not supporting certain industries pits the workers against the Democratic Party.

I have a blue dog rep in office who frequently talks against plastic (particularly garlands and Christmas trees) There are strategies you leave on the table. That’s all.

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