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Developing country voices ‘locked out of the room’ at UN plastic waste talks

Developing country voices ‘locked out of the room’ at UN plastic waste talks

Limits on NGO numbers at Paris summit mean some of those ‘most needing to be heard’ will not feature

Scientists and NGOs have accused the UN’s environment programme (Unep) of locking out those “most needing to be heard” from upcoming negotiations in Paris aimed at halting plastic waste.

Last-minute restrictions to the numbers of NGOs attending what the head of Unep described as the “most important multilateral environmental deal” in a decade will exclude people from communities in developing countries harmed by dumping and burning of plastic waste as well as marginalised waste pickers, who are crucial to recycling, from fully participating, they said.

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