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Pollution choking wetlands as negotiations hit roadblock

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Edwin Ochieng shows Yala Swamp, the country's largest freshwater wetland where he and his group take part in rehabilitating through planting papyrus and indigenous trees. [File, Standard]

Attempts by the United Nations to reach a consensus on a global treaty to end plastic pollution failed after a week of negotiations.

Over 500 proposals were submitted by governments, and participants in the stalled negotiations to deliver the world's first treaty on plastic pollution.

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