The Effort to Reduce Plastic Production Moves Forward
www.counterpunch.org - 2024-05-02T05:33:06.000Z

Plastic pollution continues to be a global problem and one of the main challenges of addressing it is identifying where the plastic products come from and who produced them. Nations made progress on a treaty to end plastic pollution as their fourth round of talks ended on Tuesday in Canada, as reported by AP. Delegates More

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