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Why can’t the world get its act together on plastics?

Why can’t the world get its act together on plastics?

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Madeleine Finlay hears from Karen McVeigh, a senior reporter for Guardian Seascapes, about a particularly damaging form of plastic pollution causing devastation off the coast of Kerala, and the failed talks to get countries to agree to cut plastic product

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After three years of negotiating, talks over a global plastics
treaty came to an end in Geneva last week with no agreement in
place. So why has it been so difficult to get countries to agree to
cut plastic production? Madeleine Finlay hears from Karen McVeigh,
a senior reporter for Guardian Seascapes, about a particularly
damaging form of plastic pollution causing devastation off the
coast of Kerala, and where we go now that countries have failed to
reach a deal. Help support our independent journalism at
theguardian.com/sciencepod