World agrees to create legally binding agreement to ‘eliminate plastic waste’

Representatives from 175 countries agreed on Wednesday to create an international agreement with legally binding components to “eliminate plastic waste.” The text, negotiated by delegates at the United Nations Environment Assembly meeting in Nairobi this week, addresses not just plastic pollution, but its production and design, a development many see as opening the door to global limits on plastic production. The World’s environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler reports.

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