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Progress made over new treaty to end plastic pollution
Plastic pollution

INTERNATIONAL negotiators made progress today towards drawing up a new treaty to end plastic pollution.

After four rounds of talks, the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution began discussing the text of what is supposed to become a global pact. 

Delegates and observers in the Canadian capital Ottawa called it a welcome sign that the talks had shifted from ideas to treaty language.

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