A voluntary, non-binding agreement won’t be enough to address a continuing wave of single-use plastics that presents a serious threat to the world’s oceans.
Most plastics don’t biodegrade in any meaningful sense, so the plastic waste humans have generated could be with us for hundreds or even thousands of years.
A failure to address the mountains of waste in the developing world will result in as much plastic in our oceans as fish, the head of Ocean Conservancy has warned.