FRANTIC efforts by civil society organizations and activists from across Africa gathered at the European headquarters of the United Nations for a legally binding global plastics treaty appear to be counter current to issues of global economic and environmental negotiations generally. This was evident in preliminary remarks by the Pan-Africa plastics project coordinator for the global NGO, Greenpeace Africa, who said in a background statement that Africa, despite contributing a small fraction in global plastics production, bears a disproportionate burden of pollution, much of it imported. That might indeed be true, but morally based financing is not operable at present.
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