Global NGOs join forces to accelerate campaign to end plastic pollution

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Global NGOs join forces to accelerate campaign to end plastic pollution

Collaboration between international NGOs aims to promote vision for a global circular economy and step up calls for a Global Plastics Treaty

Global efforts to end plastic pollution took a step forward this week with the formation of a new knowledge exchange network from some of the world's leading NGOs, which is designed to ramp up calls for...

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