As we continue our negotiations for a global plastics treaty, our Plastics Initiative program officer, Erica Nuñez, was featured in an episode of Al Jazeera’s series called The Stream. In the video, she discusses what she would like to see in regard to a treaty — including having countries take a human and environmental health approach to addressing the full life cycle of plastics.

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