Inuit at the UN plastic talks

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Liz Pijogge, a northern contaminants researcher for the Nunatsiavut government, collects plastic samples in the Nunatsiavut region.Image courtesy SuliaKaKatigelluta: Community Monitoring of Plastic Pollution in Nunatsiavut

Opinion

BY LISA KOPERQUALUK

April 4, 2024

There’s a sequence in a YouTube video Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) produced last year on contaminants. It shows what happens to a piece of plastic dropped into a gutter in a big city. The sewer system carries it out to sea, through ocean currents, and it makes its way t...

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