UN Embarks on a Belated Bid to Solve Plastics Pollution

But it may be too late to do anything but stop adding more

In early March, the United Nations Environment Assembly agreed on what its advocates call one of the most significant policies ever to protect the world from the plague of plastic pollution, which is expected to outweigh fish in the world’s oceans by 2050 if something drastic isn’t done.

The big concern is that there is so much plastic scattered around t…