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Plastic Pollution: A Review
Summary
This review examines the complexity of global plastic pollution, covering legislative gaps, bioplastic alternatives, and strategies for reducing marine plastic contamination across multiple national contexts including Thailand and Spain. The review highlights the need for coordinated government, private sector, and public action to effectively reduce plastic waste entering marine environments.
The problem of plastic pollution is complex. There are some suggestions and views related to this plastic pollution. Microalgae species used to synthesize bioplastic. In Thailand there are 3 main obstacles Thailand’s government, private sector, and citizens from engaging in the sort of collective action needed to reduce marine plastic pollution. In Spain, a revision of European and Spanish legislation about plastics and marine pollution is needed and some strategies to reduce this kind of contamination in Spain. In Canada, recommendations to strengthen Single Use Plastic (SUP) management strategies and mitigate plastic pollution to improve future Canadian SUP reduction policies. Bangladesh raising a concern among the appropriate authorities to develop policies and impose necessary actions against plastic pollution before it is too late. Saudi Arabia demand a compressive solution that ranges from governmental policies to engineering solution to lessen the use of plastic in minimizing global carbon emissions and from Malaysia suggest better understanding of how human security can be factored into the crisis resolution of plastic waste pollution. A realistic transformation towards eco-effective nation
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