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Banda Aceh, Feb 25 (EFE/EPA).- The Deputy for Coordination of Environment and Forestry Management at the Indonesian Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Investment, said that 0.62 million tons of plastic waste leaked into the sea through rivers. Indonesia has more than 330 rivers which could be a potential way for waste to enter the sea.(Camera: HOTLI SIMANJUNTAK)SHOT LIST: PLASTIC WASTE IN A RIVER IN BANDA ACEH, INDONESIA.
A park in Beijing's Fangshan district, where residents used to gather, dance and exercise, is now flooded with plastic waste after China's capital was hit with its heaviest rains in recent days since records began 140 years ago. IMAGES
Representatives of 175 nations with divergent ambitions met at UNESCO headquarters in Paris for the second of five sessions, with the aim of making progress towards reaching, by next year, a historic agreement covering the entire plastics life cycle. IMAGES
The United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi passes a solution to start negotiating a world-first global treaty on plastic pollution in what has been hailed a watershed moment for the planet. Nearly 200 nations unanimously agreed to create an intergovernmental committee to negotiate and finalise a legally binding plastics treaty by 2024. IMAGES
The UN Environment Assembly opens the closing session of its deliberations, where the body is to launch formal negotiations for a global treaty to address the planet's "epidemic" of plastic trash, a moment that supporters describe as historic. IMAGES
The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit in Kenya says Washington will push for a global agreement to "combat ocean plastic pollution" at the UN Environmental Assembly next year. SOUNDBITE
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