Mirage News, July 2025
With the final round of UN negotiations on a global plastics treaty fast approaching, a group of over 60 leading scientists from around the world has issued an urgent call for governments to agree on ambitious, enforceable action to tackle plastic pollution, such as reducing plastic production and prioritising human health. The letters, published today in Cambridge University Press journal Cambridge Prisms: Plastics in the run-up to the resumed session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2), warn that the plastics crisis has become a defining environmental, health, and social justice issue of our time.
Professor Steve Fletcher, Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Prisms: Plastics: Plastics and Director of the Revolution Plastics Institute. “This is not just a call for action, this is the scientific community bearing witness,” said Professor Steve Fletcher , Editor-in-Chief of Cambridge Prisms: Plastics and Director of the Revolution Plastics Institute . “We’ve watched the evidence pile up for decades. This treaty is a test of whether the world is prepared to govern plastics in a way that reflects the scale and urgency of the crisis.”
