Small numbers. To almost no one's surprise, action to keep global warming from rising 1.5℃ (2.7° F) above pre-industrial levels failed to materialize at COP26, the United Nations Climate Conference in November. Marine packaging waste wasn't part of the COP26 agenda, although bulging black plastic bags, overflowing dumpsters, and mounds of trash from an eight-day garbage collectors' strike in Glasgow, Scotland where the meeting was held reminded delegates that post-consumer waste and rising sea levels are aspects of the global warming problem that scientists say are triggering "worsening storms, wildfires, droughts, and sea-level rise."
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