Governments are meeting in Paris this week to negotiate a global treaty on plastic pollution, as alarm grows over the environmental damage caused by surging amounts of waste.
Producing plastics causes major planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, while the accumulation of plastic products in the environment pollutes lands and oceans.
In a recent report, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said countries can reduce plastic pollution by 80 per cent by 2040 through major policy changes using existing technologies
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