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March 15, 2022
When it Comes to Plastic, Tuko Pamoja!
Representatives from 175 nations agreed at the UN Environment Assembly to begin negotiating a legally binding agreement to stem the tide of plastic waste across the planet. At a time when unity and harmony are hard to come by, businesses, governments, and civil society—north and south, small and large, developed and developing—agreed we have all had enough of plastic pollution.
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