While the world's attention was fixated on the conflict in Ukraine, a landmark United Nations achievement flew under the radar in early March. At the fifth session of the UN Environment Programme in Nairobi, the global environmental authority turned its attention to plastic. Recognizing that plastic pollution has, simply put, spiraled out of control, the assembly passed a resolution to end plastic waste.
The resolution is certainly timely, given shocking recent discoveries about the extent of plastic pollution on Earth — which has penetrated into the human bloodsteam, resulted in humans consuming a credit card's worth of the stuff each week, and whose microparticles in the ocean now outnumber zooplankton.
