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No end in sight to plastic pollution crisis as treaty negotiations in Geneva fail
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No end in sight to plastic pollution crisis as treaty negotiations in Geneva fail

  • By JENNIFER McDERMOTT Associated Press

Talks on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution in Geneva ended without an agreement Friday. The session was adjourned and will be resumed at a later date. Nations were meeting for an 11th day at the United Nations office to try to complete a landmark treaty to end the plastic pollution crisis. They remain deadlocked over whether the treaty should reduce exponential growth of plastic production and put global, legally binding controls on toxic chemicals used to make plastics. The negotiations at the U.N. hub were supposed to be the last round and produce the first legally binding treaty on plastic pollution, including in the oceans.

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