Pollution choking wetlands as negotiations hit roadblock

Edwin Ochieng shows Yala Swamp, the country's largest freshwater wetland where he and his group take part in rehabilitating through planting papyrus and indigenous trees. [File, Standard]

Attempts by the United Nations to reach a consensus on a global treaty to end plastic pollution failed after a week of negotiations.

Over 500 proposals were submitted by governments, and participants in the stalled negotiations to deliver the world's first treaty on plastic pollution.