"We must end plastic pollution before plastic pollution ends us," Kim Wansup, South Korea's minister of environment, said during the opening session.
"Don't kick the can, or the plastic bottle, down the road," U.N. Environment Programme Executive Director Inger Andersen said in a message to negotiators.
"We think it's the heart of the treaty, to go upstream and to get to the problem at its source," said Dennis Clare, legal advisor for Micronesia.
This 'is an issue about the intergenerational justice of those generations that will come after us and be living with all this garbage,' Andersen stated.
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