Talks on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution in Geneva ended without an agreement Friday.

Every year, the world makes more than 400 million tons of new plastic, and that could grow by about 70% by 2040 without policy changes. About 100 countries want to limit production.

The final decision, or lack there of, underscored the influence of the United States and other oil-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia, which opposed any limit on the productions of plastics, made mostly from fuels like oil and gas.

Not that anyone should have expected anything different, but we can’t even get a future limit on the amount of plastic produced