A UN meeting held in Geneva ended with no agreement on a legally binding treaty that would address plastic pollution, to the disappointment of the delegates, who did not reach a consensus after 10 days of talks.

The chair of the negotiations, Luis Vayas Valdivieso (Ecuador), adjourned the session with a pledge to resume talks at a later date, Reuters reports. Some delegates attributed the lack of results to a ‘broken process’.

The news agency quotes the French ecology minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher, who said in the meeting’s closing session that she was “enraged because despite genuine efforts by many, and real progress in discussions, no tangible results have been obtained.”

This was the sixth round of talks around a global treaty in three years.

“There remained a split between a group of about 100 nations calling for curbs on the production of plastic, and oil states pushing for a focus on recycling,” BBC summarized the impasse in the proceedings.

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