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Vice Minister Juan Durand said that the implementation of this initiative will reduce plastic pollution in the country by 50 %.The Ministry of Environment (Minam), in alliance with the sectors and institutions that make up the National Platform for Action on the Plastics of Peru, is promoting the implementation of the action road map to reduce plastic pollution in Peru to 2040.
In this regard, the Deputy Minister of Environmental Management of the Minam, Juan Durand Galindo, said that with the execution of this initiative, plastics contamination in the country can be reduced by 50 %, avoiding that more than 850,000 tons of these waste end up in the environment and affect our ecosystems.
He also stressed that this action will advance in the construction of long -term environmental policies to face the pollution problem, under the focus of the national campaign less plastic, more life. Then, he called on all the members of the aforementioned platform to assume an active role in the execution of this valuable initiative.
This was held this morning during the presentation of the final version of the aforementioned road map, where the members of the aforementioned national platform participated. This document incorporates comments and observations collected in the previous stages; and the strategic role that the group of leaders (high level) will assume in its implementation and monitoring, among other aspects.
The year 2023, the Minam signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the World Economic Forum in order to promote the implementation of systematic and joint activities against this type of plastic pollution.
The National Platform for Action on Peru plastics is made up of more than 70 institutions of the State, civil society, academia and the private sector. It aims to plan actions based on technical evidence and to reduce environmental pollution by plastics.
In addition to the generation of technical evidence, the platform has promoted the multisectoral articulation and the development of awareness and dissemination actions as a key axes to face plastic pollution.
