GENEVA: Talks aimed at striking a landmark global treaty on plastic pollution fell apart Friday without agreement, as countries failed to find consensus on how the world should tackle the ever-growing scourge. Negotiators from 185 nations worked beyond Thursday’s deadline and through the night in an ultimately futile search for common ground between nations wanting bold action such as curbing plastic production, and oil-producing states preferring to focus more narrowly on waste management.

More than 100 countries reject draft treaty as ‘unambitious’ and ‘inadequate’

Some countries blasted the lack of legally binding action, while oil-producing states say the text goes too far.