Japan proposes U.N. working group to tackle microplastics pollution

Japan has submitted to the United Nations a draft resolution to establish a working group for coordinating efforts toward combating ocean microplastics pollution, people close to the matter said Saturday.Norway has tabled a similar resolution, and the two countries have been discussing combining their proposals for the fourth session of the U.N. Environmental Assembly in Nairobi starting on March 11, they said.[Photo courtesy of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service]The resolution, if adopted, would create a new international framework to accelerate study on and promote measures to tackle the em…READ FULL ARTICLE