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PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS
The 2 World Plastic
nd

Summit proposes

solutions

For three days, scientific experts and industry representatives worked
on innovative approaches and proactive collaborations to make a real

impact on the plastic crisis.

Following on from the success of the first Global Plas-
tic Summit launched at Monaco Ocean Week 2022,
the new edition of the event is building on its mo-
mentum of facilitating international scientific collabo-
ration. This year, however, the emphasis has been on
developing and promoting practical solutions to this
widespread pollution.
The summit opened on 22 March 2023 at the Mé-
ridien Beach Plaza Hotel with a speech by environ-
mental philanthropist Oxana Girko, the initiator of the
summit and president of the Monaco World Plastics
Association, an organisation inaugurated for the oc-
casion.
Welcoming the delegates alongside the organisers
of the summit, Oleg Novachuk, vice-president of the
OVER 60 EXPERTS IN SEARCH Monaco World Plastics Association, emphasised "the
OF SOLUTIONS need to move from discussion to action". Some sixty
eminent biologists, chemists, engineers, environmen-
At the opening of the event, HE Bernard Fautrier, talists, materials specialists, sustainable development
Special Adviser to HSH the Sovereign Prince on the analysts and representatives of leading companies
Environment, who was present at the summit, out- worked towards the same goal: to develop and acce-
lined Monaco's involvement in the negotiations for a lerate new solutions. They have developed innovative
global treaty on plastics, which could come into effect multinational projects aimed at providing concrete so-
by 2030. This introduction laid the foundations for lutions to reduce plastic pollution and create a circular
international politicians to tackle this issue, which is and virtuous economy.
having a growing impact on human and global health.

Registered with the Principality's Minister of State in January 2023, l'Association
mondiale des Plastiques de Monaco (World Plastics Association Monaco) aims to
accelerate the development and implementation of plastics recycling and redesign
PROFILE technologies through international collaboration and to stem the flow of plastic
pollution into the natural environment.