Delegates from around the world are gathering in Geneva for a critical round of negotiations aimed at securing the first global treaty to curb the mounting plastic pollution crisis.

Plastics are everywhere—they're even in you right now—and are making many of us sick. Now, global negotiators are fighting over whether that matters.

Negotiations aimed at forging a global treaty on plastic pollution are being blocked by oil-producing countries and getting bogged down in a “dialogue of the deaf”, sources in and around the talks told AFP.