The International Environmental Technology Centre of the United Nations Environment Programme organized a UNEP Symposium on Plastic Waste Problems on 22nd May 2019 in Osaka, Japan, at the side lines of the IETC Global Dialogue with the Private Sector on Technology Solutions for Holistic Waste Management, which took place on 21–23 May 2019 in Osaka, Japan.
The Symposium shared information of the current status of plastic waste issues and expertise on good practices to manage plastic waste in an environmentally sound way and premised on the need for environmentally sound management of plastic waste in order to solve the marine litter problems.
In the end, the Symposium produced a message to G20 Osaka Summit (28-29 June 2019) and passed the message to the Government of Japan.
