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November 15, 2023
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Mark Sappenfield
Senior global correspondent

Perhaps you’ve heard: Plastic is everywhere and tends to stick around for a long time. One estimate suggests only 10% of consumer plastics are recycled. The rest are burned, are thrown in landfills, or collect in ocean garbage patches. One is bigger than Texas.

Now the world is trying to do something. Nations are meeting in Kenya this week to push toward the first-ever global treaty on plastics. In another promising development, alternatives to plastic packaging are also emerging. Our own reporting has found no easy answers, rather the need for a societal shift.


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Smoke rises as displaced Palestinians take shelter at Al Shifa Hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, Nov. 8, 2023. Early on Nov. 15 Israeli forces raided Al Shifa, under which, Israeli and U.S. intelligence say, Hamas had located a command center and weapons.
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Current and former government officials, including President of the National Assembly Yael Braun-Pivet, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, Senate President Gerard Larcher, and former Presidents François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy, attend a demonstration against antisemitism, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Paris, Nov. 12, 2023.
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Erica Robin (left), the first Miss Universe contestant from Pakistan, sits with contestants from (left to right) Bahrain, South Africa, and Nicaragua during rehearsals in San Salvador, El Salvador, Nov. 10, 2023. The Pakistani model has faced backlash at home for her participation in the pageant.
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Composer and pianist Dr. Courtney Bryan was recently awarded a MacArthur “genius grant.”

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People in Taipei, Taiwan, walk pass a poster of Terry Gou, the founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn, who has qualified to run in the Jan.13 presidential election.

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A member of a search-and-rescue team jumps over a crack in a road in the fishing town of Grindavik, Iceland, which was evacuated due to volcanic activity, Nov. 15, 2023. Officials said Wednesday that there was a high probability of a volcanic eruption amid hundreds of earthquakes.
( The illustrations in today’s Monitor Daily are by Karen Norris. )

A look ahead

Thank you for joining us today. Please come back tomorrow when we look at how the war in Ukraine has changed how NATO is preparing for war. We’ll also peek into today’s meeting between President Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in San Francisco and share what we’re seeing about the trajectory of U.S.-China relations.

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