‘Total Infiltration’: How Plastics Industry Swamped Vital Global Treaty Talks
Being surrounded and yelled at about “misrepresenting reality” is not how serious United Nations-hosted negotiations are meant to proceed. But that is what happened to Prof Bethanie Carney Almroth during talks about a global treaty to slash plastic pollution in Ottawa, Canada. The employees of a large US chemicals company “formed a ring” around her, she says.
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Source: The Guardian (link opens in a new window)
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