WASTE PICKERS
2nd Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) on Plastic Pollution in Paris
Paris, France, 29 May-2 June, 2023
Abstract
The second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, will take place in the Paris, France from 29 May to 2 June 2023. The International Alliance of Waste Pickers will have a delegation.
The second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, will take place in the Paris, France from 29 May to 2 June 2023. The International Alliance of Waste Pickers will have a delegation. More information about this event at UNEA web page dedicated to the session.
Visit our section dedicated to the Plastic Treaty
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Table of contents
Relevant documentation #
This 4 page document, Recommendations for potential core obligations options for the plastics treaty, lists the recommendations for potential core obligations options for the plastics treaty. This is the core of our demand, and it revolves around Option-11. We will try on getting this text agreed upon by the member states.
230522_recommendations-for-core-obligations-plastic-treaty_IAWP_globalrec.orgEvents #
Side event for INC-2: What must the treaty text contain to deliver a just transition?
The Just Transition Initiative and the International Alliance of Waste Pickers invite you to an INC-2 Paris 2023 side event: What must the treaty text contain to deliver a just transition?
Contributions from the Governments of Brazil, Kenya and South Africa plus the International Alliance of Waste Pickers and International Labour Organisation.
Tuesday 30 May, 13:30-14:30.
What we are doing at INC-2 #
These reports summarize what the International Alliance of Waste Pickers delegation is doing at the Plastic pollution treaty negotiations at INC-2 in Paris.
Before the negotiations
The IAWP delegation in Paris for #INC2 visited Amelior’s Ressourcerie-Recyclerie on the day of their weekly flea market. An incredible experience for waste pickers around the world to understand how French waste pickers lead the circular economy by recovering second hand goods.
Amelior flea market.
“You can not have environmental rights without human rights, nor human rights without environmental rights. And in between those are labor rights.” -Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP. Today our waste picker delegation met with UNEP
Inger Andersen today at INC-2 in Paris.
Meeting of IAWP delegates (ARO, ANARCH, Amelior, KeNaWaPa, GroundScore, Hasirudala, ANR) and allies from WIEGO and Tearfund with Inger Andersem, Executive Director of UNEP in INC-2 (Paris, France) 2023.
Inspiring conversation with a delegation of waste pickers ahead of #PlasticsINC. More than 20 million people work as waste pickers. A global agreement to #BeatPlasticPollution must drive a just transition for all. Determined to keep the doors open to ensure all voices are heard. pic.twitter.com/9MyKvcNdWw
— Inger Andersen (@andersen_inger) May 28, 2023
Day 1: May 29 #
The first day at the Plastic Treaty negotiations were related to the INC’s rules of procedure, the need to protect voting versus consensus. There was no discussion on the plastic treaty itself. You can read the great summary that Break Free from Plastic prepares every day!
The IAWP delegates participated in different events and meetings:
Round table: “Global South Voices at INC-2”
Organized by GAIA, where Indumathi (Association of Indian Waste pickers, AIW) and John Xavier Chewya (KeNaWPa) participated. Watch it. More info.
Press conference: ”Observers and Delegates at INC-2 Negotiations Outline what is Needed to Advance a High-Ambition Plastics Treaty”
Organized by CIEL where Johnson Doe (Kpone Landfill Waste Pickers Association, Ghana) participated. Watch the full conference. More information.
The IAWP delegation also met with the Japan representatives
Delegates fro mthe global south could exchange views on the role of plastic production, collection and recycling with Japanese representatives.
In other spaces
In the opening speech Inger Anderson mentioned the importance to put Just transition in the middle to address the climate and plastic crisis: “Only elimination, reduction, a full life cycle approach, transparency, and a Just transition, only those can bring success”. The previous day she shared this tweet after meeting IAWP delegates.
Inspiring conversation with a delegation of waste pickers ahead of #PlasticsINC. More than 20 million people work as waste pickers. A global agreement to #BeatPlasticPollution must drive a just transition for all. Determined to keep the doors open to ensure all voices are heard.
Protest action for lack of access to waste picker and other communities. INC-2, Paris, France. 2023
On the civic action sphere, there was a protest action “Kick Industry out!”, against the lack of access to negotiations, calling on countries to make more space for underrepresented communities like waste picker, global south, frontline communities and other key key stakeholders. It was organized by different environmental organizations like GAIA, CIEL, Break Free from Plastic, Tearfund and others in the Plastic Treaty coalition, outside the UNESCO building in Paris, where the convention takes place. Some held banners reclaiming more space for waste pickers. Various delegates from the International Alliance of Waste Pickers could not attend the INC-2 because their visas were not granted.
Day 2 of INC-2: Make Just transition a core obligation of the Plastic Treaty!
Side event at INC-2 on Just Transition and the Plastic Treaty. With Soledad Mella And Johnson Doe. Paris, 2023.
You can read our daily report here and watch the side event.
Day 3 of INC-2: A Plastics Treaty without waste pickers is rubbish!
Luyanda Hlatshwayo (International Alliance of Waste Pickers) made an intervention today at #INC2 #PlasticsTreaty in Paris: “A Plastics Treaty without waste pickers is rubbish!”
We’ve published the video also in Twitter. Help us resharing!
Luyanda Hlatshwayo (International Alliance of Waste Pickers) made an intervention today at #INC2 #PlasticsTreaty in Paris: “A Plastics Treaty without waste pickers is rubbish!” pic.twitter.com/9irneTJ12Y
— ♻️ International Alliance of Waste Pickers (@globalrec_org) May 31, 2023
