Guardian Seascapes reporter Karen McVeigh tells Madeleine Finlay a few current journey to the Galápagos Islands, the place mounds of plastic waste are washing up and inflicting issues for endemic species. Tackling this sort of waste and the overproduction of plastic have been the subjects on the desk in Ottawa this week, as nations met to barter a world plastics treaty. However is progress too sluggish to handle this pervasive downside?