What’s in the “zero draft” of the United Nations Plastics Treaty, and is it going to be binding or voluntary? Steve Toloken covers those questions in the September Plastics in Politics Live.
We also covered a U.S. EPA proposal that could regulate plastics waste feedstocks that go into chemical recycling. At this point, EPA wants to regulate feedstocks of plastic waste going into pyrolysis to make transportation fuels, but the rulemaking could impact plastics-to-plastics recycling, too.
Finally, we discussed the debate over a potential health review for vinyl chloride monomer under the Toxic Substances Control Act. EPA, in response to some NGOs, has said that “it’s possible” that VCM will be on a list of legacy chemicals that will get more rigorous scrutiny.