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Episode: Global plastic pollution treaty talks hit critical stage in Ottawa
Description: Thousands of negotiators and observers representing most of the worldβs nations gathered in Ottawa to craft a treaty to end the rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution.
The scale of the plastics problem is daunting, but not for the volunteers collecting waste on a Cape Town beach.
Cleanup on this scale may be considered a drop in the oceans of plastic, but here it's the message that counts as thousands of delegates representing scores of countries arrive for the International Plastics Negotiations in Ottawa, Canada, last month.
The aim is to craft a treaty to stop the rapidly escalating pr...