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Northeastern delegation heads to South Korea for pivotal UN plastic pollution treaty talks

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Northeastern University professor Maria Ivanova is heading to South Korea with hopes of seeing an international treaty that aims to put the brakes on plastic pollution across the globe.

Ivanova, director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern, is leading a delegation that will take part in the fifth round of negotiations on an international treaty on plastic pollution authorized by the United Nations in March 2022.  

The delegation includes Aron Stubbins, a Northeastern professor of marine and environmental sciences, chemistry and chemical biology and civil and environmental engineering, and six graduate students from the university. 

This is expected to be the final meeting of the negotiating committee, which represents more than 190 countries. 

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