In a recent set of marathon talks that went down to — and past — the wire, delegates from more than 120 countries hashed out the first international treaty designed to eliminate some of the world’s most toxic chemicals.
Although most of the substances have been banned in Japan for years, some are still in circulation, making the task of finding and destroying them tricky.
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