'We should be outraged': Plastics treaty talks collapse as countries disagree on chemicals and money

Sian Sutherland, co-founder of A Plastic Planet and The Plastic Health Council, blamed the plastics and fossil fuel industries for the failure, saying they "threw everything possible at these negotiations...hundreds of lobbyists; expensive ad campaigns; buckets of misinformation, extraordinary delaying tactics. When you have limitless funding from fossil fuels, derailing the negotiations is small change."

The negotiations, in Busan, South Korea, were supposed to be the fifth and final round to produce the first ever Global Plastics Treaty. Negotiators have agreed to resume the talks next year though no date has been set.

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