After a vote in March agreeing to build a treaty that would essentially “eliminate all plastic waste,” negotiations via the United Nations have started this week in Uruguay in hopes of adopting a treaty before a set 2024 deadline. Countries differ in how to effectively do this on a global scale. Jane Patton, campaign manager for plastics & petrochemicals at CIEL, joins The World from the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee’s first treaty conference in Uruguay.
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