What was supposed to be the final round of negotiations for a legally binding global treaty to end plastic pollution has failed to reach a consensus.

After delegates spent 10 days in Geneva, Switzerland, trying to address plastic pollution, the session was adjourned, with no immediate plans to resume efforts to reach a treaty.

The World Wildlife Fund called on ambitious states to pursue a separate deal, with the hope of getting plastics-producing nations on board later.

"Consensus is dead, it's clear that it's not working," Björn Beeler, the international co-ordinator for the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN), told CBC News.

This was the sixth time countries had convened as part of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, which was supposed to come to an agreem

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