The stream of plastic pollution: could a global treaty help us turn off the tap?

Guardian Seascapes reporter Karen McVeigh tells Madeleine Finlay
about a recent trip to the Galápagos Islands, where mounds of
plastic waste are washing up and causing problems for endemic
species. Tackling this kind of waste and the overproduction of
plastic were the topics on the table in Ottawa this week, as
countries met to negotiate a global plastics treaty. But is
progress too slow to address this pervasive problem?. Help support
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