On Tuesday morning, Staff Writer Catherine Sherman attended the first virtual seminar of a two-part series hosted by Columbia Global Centers in Mumbai. This seminar invited experts to discuss the current state of global plastic pollution and pose potential methods to reduce plastic-related environmental and health harms in the future.

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