While plastics are now an integral part of everyday life, the pollution caused by them has become a major health and environmental hazard. In 2022, the UN Environment Assembly finally decided to negotiate a global treaty to contend with plastic pollution. As many as 184 countries gathered in Geneva a few weeks ago for another round of talks aiming to develop a meaningful framework to tackle this problem. Despite high hopes, the outcome of these talks has not produced any significant results.

There seems to remain an irreconcilable divide between the group of more than 100 countries on one side, and the oil and gas producing nations on the other hand, which has prevented consensus on a Global Plastics Treaty. Countries like China, India, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the US are still refu

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