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An International Legal Framework for Marine Plastics Pollution
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This legal analysis reviews the current international framework for regulating marine plastics and identifies significant gaps and inconsistencies across treaties and agreements. The chapter argues that stronger, more unified global legal instruments are needed to effectively reduce plastic pollution in the world's oceans.
This Chapter examines how the rule of law could be enhanced in relation to regulation of marine plastics and microplastics pollution. It provides an overview of the current legal framework which addresses marine plastics and microplastics and analyses what gaps remain within it. The fragmented nature of legal instruments regulating marine plastics and microplastics requires cooperation and coordination between sector-specific instruments and between multiple layers of regulation at global, regional and national levels. Furthermore, international regulations on marine plastics pollution should move forward towards a lifecycle approach of plastics, reflecting a turn from preventing generation of plastic to waste management.
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