INC-4: Growing Menace Of Industry Influence On Global Plastics Treaty Talks

By Ogunlade Olamide Plastic waste pollution is a growing environmental menace that is affecting lives and livelihoods across the world. But the latest efforts to combat this problem through a global plastics treaty have exposed a worrying trend: the plastic industry’s growing negative influence on and its shunning of established science. The fossil fuel and […]


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