CLEVELAND, Ohio - Global negotiations to address plastic pollution collapsed in Geneva, Switzerland, last August after countries rejected two draft treaties.

The Geneva talks, launched with optimism in 2022, broke down after representatives from 184 countries could not agree on whether to reduce plastic production or place legally binding controls on toxic chemicals used in plastics, according to an account in The Guardian .

France’s minister for ecological transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, said she was “disappointed” and “angry” that a handful of countries “guided by short-term financial interests” had blocked an ambitious treaty, The Guardian reported.

France, the EU and more than 100 countries “did everything possible” to obtain an agreement to reduce plastic production, ban dang

See Full Page