Malaysia accused of ‘blocking progress’ on plastics as it sides with oil giants

As plastic waste chokes oceans, poisons wildlife and infiltrates human bodies, the world’s governments met in Geneva this week to hammer out a landmark United Nations treaty.
But the summit was thrown into disarray as a coalition of oil‑producing states determined to block binding limits on plastic output – with which Malaysia was controversially aligned – saw negotiations stretched into an unscheduled eleventh day without agreement.
The Geneva talks, billed as the “Paris Agreement for plastics”…