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The flow of plastic into the ocean is expected to triple by 2040 if current trends continue, up to 29m tonnes a year. Photograph: Taiwan Academia Sinica Handout/EPA
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Support is growing internationally for a new global treaty to tackle the plastic pollution crisis, it has emerged, though so far without the two biggest per capita waste producers – the US and the UK – which have yet to signal their participation. A UN working group on marine litter and microplastics met at a virtual conference last week to discuss the issue. 

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