About 170 countries have been locked in tense negotiations over how to reduce plastic pollution after a week of UN talks in Paris surrounded by a frenzy of industry lobbying.
Negotiators have agreed to develop a first draft of a treaty to reduce plastic pollution but there are still divisions over issues such as whether the rules will be legally binding and whether they will limit petrochemical companies’ production of new plastic materials.
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