G7 environment and climate ministers pledge to end new plastic pollution in their countries by 2040
Plastic waste has doubled globally in 20 years and only nine percent is successfully recycled, according to the OECD group of developed countries.
"We are committed to end plastic pollution, with the ambition to reduce additional plastic pollution to zero by 2040," it said on Sunday. But this is the first time the remaining Group of Seven members - Japan, the United States and Italy - have made the 2040 commitment.German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke hailed the bloc's new plastic pollution pledge as an "ambitious goal" at a press conference following the two-day talks in Sapporo.
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