After a year and a half, negotiators finally have a draft of the global plastics treaty

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By Joseph WintersSep 5, 2023, 10:06 pm212 pts
In March 2022, 175 countries agreed to write a global treaty to address the plastic pollution crisis. Now, a year and a half later, they finally have a rough draft. The chair of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution on Monday released a “zero draft” of the global plastics treaty,…

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