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Plastic trash waiting to be sorted at a German recycling firm. In the EU,27 per cent of plastic and 38 per cent of plastic packaging are recycled.
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David Fickling
At different ends of the planet, the past week has seen separate examples of how we are failing to get to grips with our plastics problem.
In Geneva, attempts to hammer out a United Nations deal to end plastic pollution fell apart for the second time in nine months after the US joined a bloc dominated by oil exporters in refusing to countenance a cap on production or regulation of potentially toxic additives. That’s a sign of how global environmental negotiations are increasingly getting bogged down in a procedural morass.
