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Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault said plastic has become a microcosm of consumer culture since the mid-20th century, adding that the world has depended on this culture.
Nations aim to draft world's first treaty on plastic pollution, but resistance from oil- and gas-producing countries could limit scope.
United Nations’ Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for Plastics will meet in Canada for the fourth of five meetings to negotiate a legally-binding treaty on plastics pollution.
Negotiators hope to craft a treaty to stop the rapidly escalating plastic pollution problem.
Negotiators from 175 nations began talks Tuesday to agree a global treaty to reduce plastic pollution, which is found everywhere from mountain tops to ocean depths, and within human blood