23 May 2023 --- Ahead of the UN’s second International Negotiating Committee (INC-2) on establishing a global plastic pollution treaty, German investigative journalists Benedict Wermter and Jacqueline Goebel have published a book – “The Plastics Addiction” – detailing how one of the world’s most useful and abundant resources has drawn society into a “damaging and unnecessary” dependency threatening human and environmental health. Through years of research, the book asserts that while plastics of various forms can be useful – even “the defining material of our era” – current production, consumption and waste management practices throughout the world are exacerbating the climate crisis and harming human well-being – the full extent of which is still unknown.
