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A global treaty could help reduce plastic pollution by 91%. ... which drew attention to the need to curb plastic products, as NBC News reported. But by the time that straw hurt a marine animal ...
BUSAN, South Korea (Reuters) -Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution failed to reach agreement on Monday with over 100 nations wanting to cap production while a handful of ...
In August, Reuters reported a shift in U.S. government policy to support a global treaty calling for a reduction in plastic production, but three months later, nonprofit news website Grist ...
Members agreed that the treaty will be international in scope, legally binding, and should address the full life cycle of plastics, including its design, production, and disposal. [4] It has been argued that chemicals contained in plastics such as additives, processing aids, and unintentionally added substances need to be addressed, too. [16] [17]
Plastic pollutes oceans, food, your body. Yet nations are divided over a global treaty. Why all eyes are on talks for a U.N.-led accord to cut plastic waste.
Negotiations to draft a legally binding treaty to tackle the global plastic pollution crisis have ended without an agreement, as countries failed to agree on key issues like cutting plastic ...
Environment activists stage a rally calling for a strong global plastics treaty ahead of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution which sets to be held ...
We need a truly transformative international treaty based on global rules defining how–and how much–we make, use, and reuse plastics. The treaty should focus on preventing plastic from ...