plastic contaminants

As global plastic waste has increased many times over the past decade, Africa has gradually become the world's dumping ground for discarded plastic. To address the growing plastic waste problem, UN members will next week hold a three-day meeting on the earth's environmental problems. From Antananarivo to Dakar via Nairobi and Conakry, African cities are scarred by huge landfills where plastic waste is measured in thousands of tonnes. The landfill is foul-smelling and dangerous and emits smoke and…