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As plastic talks wrap up in Canada 
By Falahi Mubarok, Yogi Eka Sahputra ID Source: mongabay 5/8/2024
Falahi Mubarok, Yogi Eka Sahputra
Credit: Falahi Mubarok/Mongabay Indonesia.
Fishers in the Thousand Islands archipelago off the Jakarta coast have reported extensive economic losses due to the scale of plastic waste littering their seas.
Declining catch volume and costly repairs to boat engines are cited as drags on productivity, with one fisher telling Mongabay that his family now earns less than a decade earlier.
 

Negotiators convened by the U.N. hope to conclude an international agreement in November that would limit the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic produced around the world each year.

 
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