The indispensability of plastic to the economy cannot be a permanent excuse to delay action on evaluating its health impacts on people in India, its ecology and marine environment ...
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Monterey Bay Aquarium chief conservation and science officer Margaret Spring about why negotiators failed to clinch a global treaty on reducing plastic pollution.
For almost two years, countries have been trying to negotiate a United Nations treaty to rein in plastic pollution. The talks were supposed to end with an agreement, but that didn't happen.