Why can’t the world get its act together on plastics? – podcast
by Presented and produced by Madeleine Finlay, with K from Environment | The Guardian on (#6ZDD8)
After three years of negotiating, talks over a global plastics treaty came to an end in Geneva last week with no agreement in place. So why has it been so difficult to get countries to agree to cut plastic production? Madeleine Finlay hears from Karen McVeigh, a senior reporter for Guardian Seascapes, about a particularly damaging form of plastic pollution causing devastation off the coast of Kerala, and where we go now that countries have failed to reach a deal
Clips: Fox News, BBC, 7News Australia, France 24, DW News, CNA
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