Tag: Plastic Ban

Under the Biden-Harris administration, the United States, a leading global producer of plastics, will now back a global treaty aimed at curbing the annual production of new plastics, which is expected to decrease U.S. manufacturing output. Initially, the U.S. favored a framework where individual nations would devise their own strategies, akin to the Paris Agreement, rather than imposing […]

The Biden-Harris administration announced plans to phase out the use of single-use plastics from all federal operations by 2035, as part of its strategy to deal with plastic pollution. While this falls short of Vice-President Harris’s pledge to ban all single use plastics, it indicates she is serious about moving in that direction. The phase-out would start […]