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August 11, 2025

Nations gather to confront the world's spiraling plastic pollution crisis

  • A key split is whether a treaty should require cutting plastic production — or if redesign, recycling and reuse can solve the problem.
    • By JENNIFER McDERMOTT
    Associated Press

    Nations have been meeting since Aug. 5 to try to complete a landmark treaty aimed at ending the plastic pollution crisis that affects every ecosystem and person on the planet.

    It's the sixth time negotiators are meeting and they hope the last. A key split is whether the treaty should require cutting plastic production, with powerful oil-producing nations opposed; most plastic is made from fossil fuels. They say redesign, recycling and reuse can solve the problem, while other countries and some major companies say that's not enough.


     
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