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The equivalent of 30 trucks of throwaway plastic packaging, bags and containers are tipped on to Dandora dump daily, according to official data, a trend set to worsen with global plastic pollution forecast to double over the next decade.

This global waste crisis, which is destroying habitats, killing wildlife and contaminating the food chain, has sparked calls for radical action in a treaty billed as the most important environmental pact since the Paris Agreement.

"Our expectation is that when the treaty is signed, countries commit to stop the production of such plastics," Hibrahim Otieno, a local environmental official told Reuters at the dump site.

Otieno is not alone. Three in four people said they wanted single-use plastics banned as soon as possible in a study released this month ahead of the treaty talks.

But how the treaty will tackle single-use plastic production and use is set to be one of the thorniest issues in the talks, according to officials involved, as well as what elements of it will be legally binding and how it will be financed.