Plastic Pollution

Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers, and environmental groups are using in conversations about a proposed United Nations treaty to “end plastic pollution,” which is undergoing…

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The world is drowning in plastic. This much we know. It seems that every day greets us with fresh evidence that there is no escaping the plastic prison humanity has built for itself. In the final summation, plastic, for all its uses and abuses, is a pollutant. But there are…

Nearly every day since July 31, Benjamin Von Wong has been surrounding his 20-foot-tall art installation, “The Thinker’s Burden,” with a little more plastic trash. By Thursday, parts of it could be totally obscured beneath a mountain of garbage in front of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Von Wong,…

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GENEVA: Talks on forging a landmark treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were stumbling Saturday, with progress slow and countries wildly at odds on how far the proposed agreement should go. The negotiations, which opened on Tuesday, have four working days left to strike a legally-binding instrument that…

GENEVA - Talks on forging a groundbreaking treaty to combat the scourge of plastic pollution were floundering on Aug 9, with progress slow and countries wildly at odds on what the proposed agreement should cover. The negotiations, which opened on Aug 5, have four working days left to strike a…

Since plastic began to be mass-produced in the 1950s, the material has been building up in the environment and in people’s bodies. These six graphs illustrate just how bad the problem has gotten, and why delegates from more than 170 countries have committed to negotiating a global, legally binding treaty…

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