Societal Awareness, Regulatory Framework, and Technical Guidelines for Management of Plastic Wastes

Every nation's ecology will continue to be contaminated by the ongoing manufacturing of plastic garbage. The sustainability of plastic waste management should be investigated from the sociological, human, and ecological perspectives. In fact, one requirement for achieving the sustainable development objectives of plastic waste management is to continuously investigate it from the perspectives of social aspects such as interaction, cognitive awareness, social communication, laws, policies, institutions, standards, and social agents. Therefore, a fundamental intervention to promote the sustainability of the governance system of the plastic chain system on this planet is to give particular attention to the position of social problems in plastic waste management. To support the reader's understanding about the significance of using sociological studies through various cross-disciplinary approaches to reduce environmental degradation caused by plastic wastes, this chapter describes the key points in the social dimensions and governance of plastics that are currently in practice.