Governments and stakeholders are being asked to move towards a legal treaty banning plastic waste from entering the sea.

Recognizing that plastic waste is one of the largest environmental threat, laws have been passed to stop ships dumping it overboard.

But there’s no international law against plastics flooding into the sea from the land.

Environment ministers meeting in the Kenyan capital  are in broad agreement on the need for tougher action to combat the plastics crisis.

The 2017 UN Environment Assembly represents the world’s highest-level of decision-making body on the environment.

The US is  participating although it  traditionally resists agreeing to any international laws.

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