187 countries — except US — agree to plastic waste agreement; After 12 days of negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations, countries have agreed to treat plastic as hazardous waste. Germany is considering a ban that would go even further.
Almost every country in the world, except the United States, agreed to a deal on Friday that would sharply reduce the amount of plastic being washed into the world’s oceans.
The legally binding framework for reducing plastic waste means countries will have to monitor and track thousands of types of plastic waste outside their borders. Read More at DW
Donald Trump withdrew from the 2015 Paris Accord on climate change and in 2018, he ignored the subject of controlling plastic wastes at the G7 summit.