20 Years of Government Responses to the Global Plastic Pollution Problem: The Plastics Policy Inventory

Date
2020-05-15
Authors
Virdin, John
Karasik, Rachel
Vegh, Tibor
Pickle, Amy
Diana, Zoie
Rittschof, Daniel
Bering, Janet
Caldas, Juan
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Plastic pollution in the ocean is a global problem that requires cooperation from a wide range of groups (e.g., governments, producers, consumers, researchers, civil society). This study aims to synthesize the policy response of governments to the global plastic pollution problem, as a basis for more rigorous monitoring of progress (as called for in Resolution 4/6 of the 2019 United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) meeting) and to inform future public policies.
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Plastics, plastic pollution, plastics policy
Ocean plastic pollution
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Virdin, John; Karasik, Rachel; Vegh, Tibor; Pickle, Amy; Diana, Zoie; Rittschof, Daniel; ... Caldas, Juan (2020). 20 Years of Government Responses to the Global Plastic Pollution Problem: The Plastics Policy Inventory. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/21347.
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Diana

Zoie Diana

Student

Rachel Karasik

Senior Policy Associate
Pickle

Amy E Pickle

Senior Lecturing Fellow of Law
Amy Pickle directs the State Policy Program at Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. She focuses on state and local roles in developing energy resources; the interaction among federal, state, and local water management policies; the role of water utilities in green infrastructure implementation; and local governments' efforts to adapt to climate change and improve urban sustainability. Pickle holds a J.D. from the University of North C
Rittschof

Daniel Rittschof

Norman L. Christensen Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sciences
My day to day research focus is ecology with emphasis on larval biology, chemical, behavioral, spatial ecology and environmental toxicology. Theoretical contributions are in the origins and evolution of chemical systems. Presently, there are three areas of focus: 1) Ecology and behavioral biology of local macroinvertebrates such as blue crabs and mud snails; 2) Barnacle models as they relate to fouling and the prevention of fouling and bioadhesives; 3. Impacts of xenobiotics on behavior and repr
Vegh

Tibor Vegh

Senior Policy Associate
Tibor Vegh joined Duke's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions Environmental Economics Program in September 2012. He serves as a Policy Associate and is a collaborator on projects related to carbon markets, bioenergy, and blue carbon economics. Tibor earned his master's degree in forestry from Northern Arizona University in 2011. There, his research focused on identifying whether or not partial offset of ponderosa pine forest restoration treatments is possibl
Virdin

John Virdin

Assistant Professor of the Practice in the Division of Marine Science and Conservation
John Virdin is director of the Coastal and Ocean Policy Program at the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. Virdin’s areas of expertise include assisting developing country governments to reform and strengthen their institutions responsible for ocean fisheries, thereby reducing poverty and enhancing sustainability, and creating policy and institutional frameworks governing a wide range of human activities that drive change in ocean ecosystems, including activit
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