The UN has agreed to start negotiating the first ever global treaty to tackle the issue of plastic pollution.
After week-long talks at the UN Environment Assembly in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, nearly 200 member states agreed to create an inter-governmental committee to come up with a legally binding plastics treaty by 2024.
“The world should care about plastic waste because it is a universal problem – otherwise we will all be drowned [by it],” says Rwanda’s Environment Minister, Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya.
“Plastic does not degrade and the waste is increasing minute by minute… our oceans, river, seas have more plastic waste than fish.”
