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Why MENA Countries Cannot Recycle Their Way Out of the Plastic Crisis, and What They Can Do About it
Written by: Farah Al Hattab, (Lead Plastics Campaigner at Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa, based in Beirut, Lebanon) and Mohamed Kamal (Public Health Engineer and Director of Greenish Egypt, expert in plastics work over the past 7 years, based in Cairo, Egypt) As the world gathers in Busan, South Korea for the fifth and final session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC-5), Middle East and North African (MENA) countries stand at a critical juncture. This…
