AMMAN – The confrontation of plastic pollution in Jordan is a decisive step towards achieving sustainable development objectives and improving human well -being.
Although plastic obtains uninterrupted advantages, from energy saving to the preservation of materials, but the crisis of agreed plastic pollution threatens the safety of the planet and humans, because it causes polluting water, food and air, according to experts.
This comes in collaboration with preparations in Jordan and in the world to celebrate International Environment Day, which fell next Thursday, and two months before the two countries meet again in order to resume negotiations to reach a global treaty to end pollution with plastic materials.
International Environment Day calls for this year’s companies around the world to apply and spread permanent solutions in order to reduce pollution with plastics.
Jordan is one of the countries affected by plastic pollution
The slogan of the celebration of the International Environment Day comes this year because the whole world is the first large importance of the question of plastic pollution, which has been translated by a decision of the United Nations General Assembly of the Environment in the form of an agreement to reduce these pollutants, according to the expert in environmental business D. Muhammad al -Khashneh.
He considered that “the choice of logo for this year is a pressure card for states to advance in this agreement”.
And that Jordan is one of the countries affected by plastic pollution, which is linked to the quantities of production and consumption of plastics, the random spill of the waste resulting from it, which directly affects the environment, biological diversity and the closure of sewer canals.
He stressed that “many regions of the kingdom witness a large propagation of plastic waste, which caused the death of around 2,200 sheep, cows and other heads in 2010.”
He stressed that “the volume of plastic waste in Jordan represents more than 20% of total waste, at a time when the measures taken, despite the policies set by the government, are still below the level of ambition”.
While the quantities of plastic waste which find their means of wasting world discharges exceed 500 million tonnes, she said.
He pointed out that “Jordan consumes more than three billion bags per year, which needs 30 years to decompose, which places it in front of an environmental disaster, because it can turn into ultimate particles into ultimate plastic which can move towards the seafood chain, in the light of the lack of procedures to face it.”
He added: “Jordan is not one of the countries that produce plastics compared to other countries, but it is necessary to limit excessive use of their products and the dangerous materials that enter their industry, because there are ten thousand chemicals on which plastic industries depend.”
At the local level, Jordan has alerted a long time ago to the problem of plastic pollution, and before the development of this global agreement, when it concluded the negotiation march of the association’s decision on the agreement at the end of 2022, so that it was elected as a representative of the Asian group for the Ministry of Negotiations, but that it has lost this seat to occupy another country, according to it.
As for the procedures and, in its words, there are challenges faced with the application of the plastic bags system developed by the Ministry of the Environment in 2017, which was a main step.
He stressed that Jordan has carried out several awareness campaigns for reducing plastic waste, but its effect is still limited, because it must be accompanied by economic measures, such as the implementation of costs on the plastic bag to reduce its use and reduce it.
Not only that, but the program of responsibility for the extended product is still “stumbled” and “range in its place”, despite the presence of the support of the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), without clear reasons.
He expressed his hope that “negotiations for the global framework to reduce plastic pollutants will end with a binding agreement for countries, which will necessarily reflect Jordan positively, but that does not mean that the programs and plans that the government had previously established until this agreement is approved”.
“Al -khashahthana called on the government to put dangerous material lists to prevent their integration into plastic materials, while implementing recycling programs in the kingdom, applying extensive product responsibility and increasing the number of awareness campaigns.”
Cognitive deficiency
From the point of view of the “Lana Walla” campaign, Lana Hamarneh “, there is a cognitive shortage of individuals on the damage of plastic materials, which are frequently used by them.”
She pointed out that “there is an urgent need to implement an awareness campaign, and for a period of six consecutive months about these damage, because the monochrome plastic waste fuy, and with the toxic materials which it transports for the soil and the water bodies, and prevents the land from breathing”.
And I gave an example of this “that the spread of plastic bags around the trees, prevents water from reaching their trunks, and therefore their death”.
And she showed: “The micro-plasical particles are micro-platics cause the human body infected with several diseases, which come from plastic, cups and others.”
She stressed that “the low surveillance of public places of the Ministry of the Environment increases the random spill of this waste, which requires a collective, regional and judicial effort, as well as to face it”.
In his opinion, “the environmental dimension is completely absent from the awareness campaigns that target citizens, so that does not bother when they throw it at random.”
She underlined that “the activation of the supervision role of those who take control of cleaning operations, and even the prevention of the blind spill of waste and the reduction in the use of plastic waste is necessary and on all sides, whether the ministries concerned, before the municipalities”.
