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The Global Plastic Pollution Crisis—How Norway Deals with the Challenge
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This paper reviews Norway's policy, regulatory, and research responses to the global plastic pollution crisis, examining how the country addresses challenges ranging from microplastics and chemical additives to recycling infrastructure and extended producer responsibility. Norway's integrated approach provides a comparative model for how national policy can reduce plastic inputs at the source, limiting the microplastic contamination that ultimately enters food chains and human bodies.
Researchers all over the world are engaged in the global plastic crisis, and hundreds of reports have been written on topics like microplastics, chemicals in plastics, recycling, single-use plastics, extended producer responsibility, the informal sector, circular...
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