point joining me now to break down the problem with plastic is watching that's when producer devon springer thank you so much for joining me so. here we are representatives of almost every country we get $180.00 plus there's only so many countries all world they meet they meet in geneva they sign this pretty important agreement what are the details and what what does it mean that the u.s. i understood the u.s. wasn't actually part of this and could devote it but they actively argued against what what does it mean that they didn't try what does that say well yeah so like you said over 180 countries actually 187 in the world there's only about 194 so to put that into perspective that's almost every country on earth that signed this but the u.s. and a few small islands really so the details of the agreement are pretty straightforward right they spent 2 weeks in intense meetings and there's backing of about 2 years worth of meetings that have taken place on and off for this specific agreement the agreement target specifically plastic waste trade but trade a sort of just a diplomatic way of sayi