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Annual Trends in Plastics Policy: A Brief

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2022-02-23
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Karasik, Rachel
Bering, Janet
Griffin, Madison
Diana, Zoie
Laspada, Christian
Schachter, Jonathan
Wang, Yifan
Pickle, Amy
Virdin, John
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In 2020, the Plastics Policy Inventory and accompanying report, 20 Years of Government Responses to the Global Plastic Pollution Problem, were published, providing a baseline for the trends in government responses to the plastic pollution problem, as well as highlighting some gaps. Since that time, momentum has grown toward negotiation of an international agreement as a collective response to the problem, even as governments and resources have been strained by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This first brief builds upon the 2020 report and baseline by adding new data on national policy responses to plastic pollution from 2020 and 2021. Assessment of the more up-to-date policy inventory suggests that the twenty-year trend of an increase in the number of national policies introduced to reduce plastic pollution has stalled. While additional data on national policies may subsequently become available to revise these estimates, if confirmed they would suggest a pause in government responses to the problem, coinciding with the pandemic (though we cannot show causality). Our goal is for this brief to be the first in a regular series of annual updates on the trends in government responses to the global plastic pollution problem.
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plastic
pollution
policy
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Karasik, Rachel; Bering, Janet; Griffin, Madison; Diana, Zoie; Laspada, Christian; Schachter, Jonathan; ... Virdin, John (2022). Annual Trends in Plastics Policy: A Brief. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/24492.
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Diana

Zoie Diana

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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
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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