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STORY: UN / PLASTIC POLLUTION REPORT
TRT: 00:59
SOURCE: UNIFEED / FILE
RESTRICTIONS: CREDIT UNEP FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
16 MAY 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Dujarric at podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I just want to flag that our colleagues in Nairobi, at the UN Environment Programme say that plastic pollution could be reduced by 80 percent and result in savings of over USD 300 billion per year if countries and companies make deep policy and market shifts using existing technologies.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The report recommends first eliminating unnecessary plastics to reduce the size of the problem, and then implementing the reuse, recycling and reorientation and diversification of plastic products. The report also suggests ways to deal with the remaining plastic pollution legacy. It’s available on the internet.”
6. Wide shot, briefing room
FILE – UNEP – 2 MARCH 2022, NAIROBI, KENYA
7. Various shots, plastic waste, pollution and clean up
Plastic pollution could reduce by 80 percent by 2040 if countries and companies make deep policy and market shifts using existing technologies, according to a new report by UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
Briefing journalists in New York today (16 May), the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stéphane Dujarric, said, “our colleagues in Nairobi, at the UN Environment Programme say that plastic pollution could be reduced by 80 percent and result in savings of over USD 300 billion per year if countries and companies make deep policy and market shifts using existing technologies.”
He continued, “The report recommends first eliminating unnecessary plastics to reduce the size of the problem, and then implementing the reuse, recycling and reorientation and diversification of plastic products.”
Dujarric added, “the report also suggests ways to deal with the remaining plastic pollution legacy.”
The report recommends that a global fiscal framework could be part of international policies to enable recycled materials to compete on a level playing field with virgin materials, create an economy of scale for solutions, and establish monitoring systems and financing mechanisms.
