Global Call: Deplastify our Water!

This call to support universal access to water services and to stop plastic bottles expansion was launched ahead of the negotiations for a global plastic treaty, and signed by more than 100 NGO worldwide already. You can still subscribe it (link down).

NGOs across the world urge the Global Plastics Treaty negotiators to strongly reduce plastic bottle production and to support universal access to water services.

Distinguished Delegates and Chair of the International Negotiation Committee for a Global Plastics Treaty,

In view of the upcoming fifth round of negotiations on an international legally binding instrument (ILIB) on plastic pollution (INC-5), the civil society organisations signatories to this letter would like to insist on the importance of including strong measures to reduce the production and consumption of plastic bottles and support instead access to safe drinking water for all.

Human health and the human right to safe drinking water for all are threatened by plastic pollution and the expansion of plastic bottled water markets. We call to support universal access to water services and to stop plastic bottles expansion.

Read the full letter and sign it here

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