Plastic pollution is on the agenda at the UN Environmental Assembly meeting this week. A proposal by Rwanda and Peru aims to make producers responsible for the whole life cycle of products containing plastics.

Water ways around the world are choked with plastic pollution that often ends up in the oceans.

A recent report commissioned by the World Wide Fund for Nature projects that plastic pollution in the world's oceans could quadruple by 2050.

The UN Environmental Assembly meeting in Nairobi is discussing the problem of plastic waste.

Delegates from member countries have put forth proposals for a binding global treaty to curb plastic pollution, including Rwanda and Peru, who have pitched a proposal that calls for a full-spectrum approach to plastic pollution.

The proposal calls for the creation of an internationally legally binding agreement covering all stages of the plastic life cycle and by adopting a circular economy approach to plastics.

It covers plastic use and disposal, the extraction of raw materials and plastic production.