Why can’t the world get its act together on plastics? – podcast
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Version 0 of 1. 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 Clips: Fox News, BBC, 7News Australia, France 24, DW News, CNA Buoyant, the size of a lentil and almost impossible to recover: how nurdles are polluting the oceans Plastic pollution talks fail as negotiators in Geneva reject draft treaties Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod |