Historic pledge on plastics reached in Nairobi

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.”

By BBC