Are we on the verge of a worldwide initiative to scrub up ocean plastics?

A worldwide summit on clearing up the oceans has produced huge guarantees – is it simply blah, blah, blah, or can we make the way forward for plastic unbelievable, asks Graham Lawton

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IN JUNE 2021, the federal government of the Seychelles determined it was time to stamp out what it had come to see as a harmful leisure substance: balloon latex. Too many individuals had been taking balloons to the seaside and the popped stays had been discovering their means into the ocean to be swallowed by turtles. The federal government had already banned most different single-use plastic gadgets, together with straws, luggage, consuming utensils and cups. The balloon ban was the ultimate warning that, within the Seychelles a minimum of, the occasion is over.

The nation’s conflict on plastic was impressed partly by its stewardship …