COUNTRIES grappling with the "immense" task of ending plastic pollution began a new round of talks in Paris on Monday, amid protests and warnings of the urgency to act.

Representatives of 175 nations with divergent ambitions met at the Unesco headquarters with the aim of making progress toward reaching by next year a historic agreement covering the entire plastics life cycle.

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