Plastics producers at the INC-5 talks resisted curbs on production that others insist are essential. But negotiators have another chance early next year.

Negotiators at a U.N. plastic pollution summit in Busan, South Korea are pushing for a legally binding treaty that would set global plastic production reduction targets.

International talks to cut plastic pollution collapsed in the early hours of 2 December in what critics are billing as another triumph for the fossil fuel lobby. The week long negotiations in Busan, South Korea,