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Environment

Leaders make push for plastic pollution treaty at talks in South Korea

Plastic waste at a landfill on the outskirts of Bengaluru on November 23, 2024 [Idrees Mohammed/AFP]

Negotiators are gathering in Busan, South Korea, this week in a final push to forge a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution.

“We must end plastic pollution before plastic pollution ends us,” Kim Wan-sup, South Korea’s minister of environment, said during the opening session on Monday.

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