1. [PDF] 2024 report summary - Plastic Overshoot Day
Apr 27, 2024 · This is the day when the generation of plastic waste exceeds the capacity of waste management, leading to environmental pollution. September 5, ...
2. Summary report 23–29 April 2024 - Earth Negotiations Bulletin
Apr 30, 2024 · Of the approximately 10 billion tonnes of plastic produced since the 1950s, studies show that over 8 billion tonnes are now waste, with between ...
“This is not a fight against plastic; this is fight against plastic pollution!” This was the statement by Espen Barth Eide (Norway), President of the United Nations Environment Assembly session that adopted the resolution to end plastic pollution. The distinction may seem straightforward, but the lines between “good plastic,” and “bad plastic” have not always been clear; nor have the lines between plastic (the material), plastics (the products), and plastic pollution (the waste).
3. Reducing Single-Use Plastic Pollution | U.S. Department of the Interior
In 2024, the Department was honored with a Presidential Federal Sustainability Award for its work to eliminate single-use plastics. The award recognizes the ...
Issued on June 8, 2022, Secretary's Order 3407 (SO 3407) aims to reduce the procurement, sale and distribution of single-use plastic products and packaging with a goal of phasing out all single-use plastic products on Department-managed lands by 2032.
4. White House Announces New Strategy on Plastics Pollution
Jul 23, 2024 · The White House's Plastic Strategy presents ongoing and proposed federal actions to combat plastic pollution across the life cycle of plastics.
In continuing with the Biden-Harris Administration's goal to combat plastic pollution, on July 19, 2024, the Interagency Policy Committee on Plastic Pollution and a Circular Economy (IPC)1 released a new joint strategy to tackle plastic pollution titled "Mobilizing Federal Action on Plastic Pollution: Progress, Principles, and Priorities" (Plastic Strategy). In the cover letter to the Plastics Strategy, the IPC indicates that the "Federal government is – for the first time – formally acknowledging the severity of the plastic pollution crisis and the scale of the response that will be required to effectively confront it."
5. Earth Day 2024: Planet vs. Plastics - National Park Service
Apr 4, 2024 · This year's Earth Day theme is Planet vs. Plastics, the campaign aims to demand a 60 percent reduction in plastics by 2040 and encompasses four goals ...
April 22nd marks the world’s 54th Earth Day! National Park Week usually coincides with Earth Day. For 2024, National Park Week will be observed from Saturday, April 20th through Sunday, April 28th. Park entry fees will be waived on April 20th to encourage everyone to get out and enjoy their national parks. Honor Earth Day 2024 by organizing or participating in a local clean up, exploring the Earthday.org website, and learning more about the NPS’s efforts in plastic reduction and sustainability through the Green Parks Plan (GPP) and Plastics Elimination and Reduction Plan.This year’s Earth Day theme is Planet vs. Plastics, the campaign aims to demand a 60 percent reduction in plastics by 2040 and encompasses four goals highlighted below:
6. How Much Plastic is in the Ocean in 2024? | Stats - CleanHub's Blog
Nov 5, 2024 · For every person on the planet, there are 21,000 pieces of plastic floating in the ocean (Washington Post, 2023). This is just one of ...
Despite growing awareness about plastic pollution, ocean waste simply isn’t going away. Here are the latest ocean plastic statistics you need to know.
7. The beginning of the end for plastics pollution?
Feb 6, 2024 · The United Nations is expected to deliver a legally binding agreement on plastics pollution by the end of 2024.
Four important issues to watch out for in 2024
8. Executive Summary of the National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution
Nov 21, 2024 · On this page: Overview; Objective A: Reduce Pollution from Plastic Production; Objective B: Innovate Material and Product Design ...
Executive summary for the U.S. EPA's National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution.
9. Producer Responsibility for Plastics: 2024 State Policy Trends
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State lawmakers are advancing bills to make plastic producers more responsible for the waste they create through Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs.
10. 2024 Report: New perspective on global plastic pollution!
In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day is projected to occur on September 5th. Each country has its own Plastic Overshoot Day, which is determined by the ...
Plastic Overshoot Day 2024 report fills knowledge gap, enhances research prioritization and action against plastic pollution.
11. Plastic Pollution - UNEP
Every day, the equivalent of 2000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global ...
Every day, the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic are dumped into the world's oceans, rivers, and lakes. Plastic pollution is a global problem. Every year 19-23 million tonnes of plastic waste leaks into aquatic ecosystems, polluting lakes, rivers and seas. Plastic pollution can alter habitats and natural processes, reducing ecosystems’ ability to adapt to climate change, directly affecting millions of people’s livelihoods, food production capabilities and social well-being. UNEP’s body of work demonstrates that the problem of plastic pollution doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The environmental, social, economic and health risks of plastics need to be assessed alongside other environmental stressors, like climate change, ecosystem degradation and resource use.
12. New report unveils what plastic makers knew about recycling - NPR
Feb 15, 2024 · The plastics industry has worked for decades to convince people and policymakers that recycling would keep waste out of landfills and the environment.
Recycling "does not solve the solid waste problem," the head of a plastics trade group said in 1989, around the time the industry was launching its recycling campaign.
13. [PDF] mobilizing federal action on plastic pollution: progress, principles
single-use plastic products and packaging with a goal of phasing out single-use plastic ... plastic pollution (2024 Trade Policy Agenda). • USTR regularly ...
14. SB 54: Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer ...
10 and 11, 2024, CalRecycle notified entities that may be producers of expanded polystyrene (plastic foam) food service ware, and relevant industry groups, of a ...
State of California
15. Phasing out hard-to-recycle and single-use plastics
The Government is phasing out certain hard-to-recycle plastics and six single-use items in three tranches. Last updated: 16 May 2024. Waste ...
Alternatives to items being phased out
16. [PDF] The Circular Economy for Plastics
Virginia Janssens, Managing Director Plastics Europe. 4. PLASTICS EUROPE. THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY FOR PLASTICS - A EUROPEAN ANALYSIS | 2024. Page 5. Whereas the ...
17. Planet vs. Plastics - Earth Day
Plastics and join the movement for a plastic-free future, please visit: Earth Day 2024. To educate yourself on the impacts of plastic on human health, check out ...
Planet vs. Plastics unites students, parents, businesses, governments, churches, unions, individuals, and NGOs in an unwavering commitment to call for the end of plastics for the sake of human and planetary health.
18. New analysis suggests PFAS “forever chemicals” could be banned in ...
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Safer States’ 2024 analysis of anticipated state legislation addressing toxic chemicals and plastics across the country suggests that PFAS “forever chemicals” could be banned in more uses than ever in 2024 state bills. At least 36 states will consider more than 450 bills on toxic chemical and plastics related policies. The analysis further finds that banning “forever chemicals'' will continue to dominate in 2024, with at least 35 states introducing policies. Other significant legislation anticipated for 2024 will address toxic plastics, safe drinking water, and hazardous chemicals in cosmetics and personal care products.
19. National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution | US EPA
The "National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution: Part Three of a Series on Building a Circular Economy for All" provides an ambitious, equitable approach to ...
EPA releases the Draft National Strategy for Reducing Plastics and Other Waste in Waterways and Oceans
20. Global plastic production must be cut to curb pollution, study says
Nov 14, 2024 · Global plastic production must be reduced to tackle the immense challenge of plastic pollution, according to an analysis published on the ...
Analysis lays bare huge challenge of mismanaged waste on eve of UN plastic treaty talks in Busan
21. Plastics and Human Health | Plastics and the Environment Series
The world is facing a plastics crisis. Plastic pollution is found all around the globe. Plastics are negatively affecting people and the environment at each ...
Plastic pollution threatens not only the environment, but also our health and that of future generations. This page is part of our Plastics and the Environment series, a set of online resources on the plastics crisis, its impact on people...
22. Plastic pollution - resource - IUCN
What can be done? · Ambitious reductions in plastic production, phasing out harmful subsidies, eliminating products and chemicals of concern, and agreeing on the ...
Over 460 million metric tons of plastic are produced every year for use in a wide variety of applications. An estimated 20 million metric tons of plastic litter end up in the environment every year. That amount is expected to increase significantly by 2040. Plastic pollution affects all land, freshwater, and marine ecosystems. It is a major driver of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation and contributes to climate change. As plastic pollution is a transboundary issue, a global plastics treaty is needed to ambitiously reduce plastic production, phase out harmful subsidies, eliminate products and chemicals of concern, and adopt strong national plans and rigorous reporting and compliance mechanisms.
23. The Global Plastics Treaty
Circular Economy for Plastics ... Plastics Europe publishes the 2024 edition of the “Circular Economy for Plastics – A European Analysis” report. The newly ...
Our goal is to end plastic pollution by 2040 through a circular economy where all plastic applications are reused, recycled, and responsibly managed during and after use while enabling a lower greenhouse gas emissions plastic economy.
24. Navigating the U.N. Plastics Agreement
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Plastic pollution has become an urgent global challenge. Its exponential growth threatens human health, livelihoods and natural ecosystems, and exacerbates greenhouse gas emissions. Recognizing this critical issue, the United Nations Environment Assembly has convened an intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) to craft an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, commonly referred to as the U.N. Plastics Treaty.
25. Ambitious targets are needed to end ocean plastic pollution by 2100 ...
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A collaboration between researchers at Imperial College London and GNS Science, suggests that reducing plastic pollution by 5% per year would stabilize the level of microplastics—plastics less than 5 mm in length—in the surface oceans.
26. Everything you need to know about plastic pollution - UNEP
Apr 25, 2023 · Critically, the talks have focused on measures considering the entire life cycle of plastics, from extraction and product design to production ...
UNEP looks at some of the most-common myths around plastic pollution
