Delegates from around the world are gathering in Geneva for a critical round of negotiations aimed at securing the first global treaty to curb the mounting plastic pollution crisis.

Plastics are everywhere—they're even in you right now—and are making many of us sick. Now, global negotiators are fighting over whether that matters.

Representatives from 184 nations have convened at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva for the second part of the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution (INC-5.