UNEP - UNEA Visits Plastic Recycling Project in Nairobi

NAIROBI, KENYA - 2022/02/26: Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme(UNEP), and UN Environment Assembly President Espen Barth Eide look on during a field trip to the Dandora Dumping site ahead of the Fifth Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-5). Discussions to chart a way forward for a global plastic treaty to address the growing plastic pollution problem will begin this week during the United Nations Environmental Assembly UNEA 5.2). With two draft resolutions on the table, member countries will address the entire life cycle of plastics proposed by Rwanda and Peru or Japan's draft resolution that emphasizes better plastic waste management. More than 50 countries and environmental groups support regulations that impose caps on virgin plastics production. (Photo by James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)