Economic instruments and marine litter control

Oosterhuis, F.H.; Papyrakis, Elissaios; Boteler, Benjamin

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2014.08.005

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“…Although targeted efforts and resources directed toward improving waste management in a small number of countries with the highest amount of plastic-waste leakage hold promise (155), the global problem will require regionally specific solutions. Analysts variously promote marketbased incentives directed at consumer and producer behavior (161); technological innovation to collect plastics from oceans; improved waste management infrastructure (155); and government regulation, including banning particular products (162). In the United States, several municipalities and counties have banned (or taxed the use of) plastic bags, and Congress and Senate recently approved a ban on the production (effective July 2017) and sale (effective July 2018) of personal care products containing plastic microbeads.…”

Section: Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Oceans Governance: New and Emerging Issues

Campbell

Gray

Fairbanks

et al. 2016

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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Increased interest in oceans is leading to new and renewed global governance efforts directed toward ocean issues in areas of food production, biodiversity conservation, industrialization, global environmental change, and pollution. Global oceans governance efforts face challenges and opportunities related to the nature of oceans and to actors involved in, the scale of, and knowledge informing their governance. We review these topics generally and in relation to nine new and emerging issues: small-scale fisheries (SSFs), aquaculture, biodiversity conservation on the high seas, large marine protected areas (LMPAs), tuna fisheries, deep-sea mining, ocean acidification (OA), blue carbon (BC), and plastics pollution.

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Section: Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Oceans Governance: New and Emerging Issues

Campbell

Gray

Fairbanks

et al. 2016

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

147

111

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“…These municipalities were evaluated based on the number of the survey sites and the groups of beaches with a different number of visitors included. The municipal evaluation was carried out acknowledging the significance of the local policies in combating the problem of marine litter (Oosterhuis et al, 2014;MARLIN, 2013).…”

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Development of Beach Litter Monitoring on the Latvian Coastline: the Citizen Science Perspective

Cepuritis

Ulme²,

Bombiza

2021

Regional Formation and Development Studies

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The research analyses the beach litter monitoring programme in Latvia and provides suggestions for its improvement seeking to provide necessary information for effective marine litter management on the Latvian coastline of the Baltic Sea. The beach litter monitoring programme has been enacted since 2012 by NGO "FEE Latvia" and current research has been focused on the situation assessment and particularly provides analyses on a number and distribution of the surveyed beaches, the frequency and timing of the monitoring, litter classification and counting methodology, as well as the possible programme development using the NGO work based on the citizen science approach. The results allow to elaborate several suggestions on how to improve the programme in order to provide lacking information in Latvia on the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework directive of European Union, and to advise local municipalities in their coastal waste management practices. The suggestions include the increasing number of monitoring sites, a prioritization of the EU Master list classification protocol and an increase of sites with higher frequency of monitoring (3 times per year). Moreover, in the conducted public survey, the beach visitors demonstrated good understanding of marine litter and highly prioritized the issue. The increased interest can add public participation to further development of this applied here citizen science approach.

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“…Reducing microplastic formation by design might also include eliminating tearaway packaging (opening chip/ candy wrappers, individual straw/toothpick covers), small detached components (bottle caps and safety rings), or small single-use throw-away products (coffee stirrers, straws, bullets in toy air rifles). These mitigations can be voluntary, but are often policy-driven through fees or bans [92].…”

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Microplastic: What Are the Solutions?

Eriksen¹,

Thiel

Prindiville³

et al. 2017

The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry

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The plastic that pollutes our waterways and the ocean gyres is a symptom of upstream material mismanagement, resulting in its ubiquity throughout the biosphere in both aquatic and terrestrial environments. While environmental contamination is widespread, there are several reasonable intervention points present as the material flows through society and the environment, from initial production to deep-sea microplastic sedimentation. Plastic passes through the hands of many stakeholders, with responsibility for environmental contamination owned, shared, or rejected by plastic producers, product/packaging manufacturers, government, consumers, and waste handlers.The contemporary debate about solutions, in a broad sense, largely contrasts the circular economy with the current linear economic model. While there is a wide agreement that improved waste recovery is essential, how that waste is managed is a different story. The subjective positions of stakeholders illuminate their economic philosophy, whether it is to maintain demand for new plastic by incinerating M. Eriksen (*)

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Economic instruments and marine litter control

Cited by 67 publications

References 24 publications

Global Oceans Governance: New and Emerging Issues

Global Oceans Governance: New and Emerging Issues

Development of Beach Litter Monitoring on the Latvian Coastline: the Citizen Science Perspective

Microplastic: What Are the Solutions?

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