2024
DOI: 10.1002/eet.2092
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A policy portfolio approach to plastics throughout their life cycle: Supranational and national regulation in the European Union

Sandra Eckert,
Orr Karassin,
Yves Steinebach

Abstract: The environmental and health problems caused by plastics throughout their life cycle have attracted considerable public attention over the past decade, triggering policy responses in many constituencies. Similarly, interdisciplinary research on plastics has been burgeoning in the past few years, and political science contributions have covered the manifold root causes and consequences of this shift in public policy including media coverage, evolving discourses and policy agendas. In view of this policy relevan… Show more

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“…Additionally, almost 26 million tons of plastic waste are generated annually in Europe, and landbased sources represent nearly 80% of plastic inputs to the ocean (Lavers and Bond, 2017;European Commission, 2023b). Therefore, its policies on significant plastic consumption and production can substantially impact the worldwide plastic lifecycle (Eckert et al, 2024). As a framework policy to address the challenges, the European Commission officially launched the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy (2018) to ensure that plastic materials last longer, can be collected more easily after use, and can be reused or recycled more easily (European Commission, 2018) The Marine Strategy Framework Directive ( 2008) is a critical horizontal legislative pillar, providing a cross-sector framework covering all the primary pollution sources.…”
Section: Addressing the Gap: Eu Internal Plastic Pollution Policies A...mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Additionally, almost 26 million tons of plastic waste are generated annually in Europe, and landbased sources represent nearly 80% of plastic inputs to the ocean (Lavers and Bond, 2017;European Commission, 2023b). Therefore, its policies on significant plastic consumption and production can substantially impact the worldwide plastic lifecycle (Eckert et al, 2024). As a framework policy to address the challenges, the European Commission officially launched the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy (2018) to ensure that plastic materials last longer, can be collected more easily after use, and can be reused or recycled more easily (European Commission, 2018) The Marine Strategy Framework Directive ( 2008) is a critical horizontal legislative pillar, providing a cross-sector framework covering all the primary pollution sources.…”
Section: Addressing the Gap: Eu Internal Plastic Pollution Policies A...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Many measures focus on downstream activities (Milios, 2018), while only a non-legally binding framework is effective at the upstream stage to reduce the overall consumption of primary fossil-based materials. Policy action mostly leaves the upstream material input stage unaddressed (Eckert et al, 2024). The downstream limiting the number of plastics currently disposed of in landfills, which could further optimize resource efficiency, still needs to be regulated in the EU (Steensgaard et al, 2017).…”
Section: Addressing the Gap: Eu Internal Plastic Pollution Policies A...mentioning
confidence: 99%