Why We Need a Foreign Policy for Combating Plastic Pollution
A Global Response to a Global Problem

8.3 billion metric tons — that’s the amount of plastic produced so far in the history of mankind. That’s enough to fill the Empire State Building 25,000 times from its base to the radio antenna, the Eiffel Tower 822,000 times, the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur close to 225,000 times, and the…