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A solution package for plastic pollution – from measurement to action: insights from Eastern and Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Mediterranean

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Guillaume Billard, Julien Boucher, Alexandre Bouchet, Anna Kounina, Paola Paruta, Laura Peano, Margherita Pucino, Melissa Zgola, Feng Wang, Estefania Sanabria, Marcos Paulo Santos Pereira, Hoang Nguyen, Maeve Nightingale, Bùi Thị, Thu Hien, Siriporn Sriaram, Mariana Blanco Bolaños, Juan Sabio, Peter Manyara, Leander Raes, Janaka de Silva, Lea Dubois, Dorina Seitaj, S Borrelle, C Rochman, M Liboiron, A Bond, H Bradshaw, J Provancher, L Galgani, R Beiras, F Galgani, C Panti, A Borja, M Gregory, J Hammer, M Kraak, J Parsons, A Iovinelli, A Jain, L Raes, P Manyara, J Jambeck, R Geyer, C Wilcox, T Siegler, M Perryman, A Andrady, R Narayan, K Law, Y Jang, S Hong, J Lee, M Lee, W Shim, A Lusher, G Hernandez-Milian, S Berrow, E Rogan, I O'connor, L Meijer, T Van Emmerick, R Van Der Ent, C Schmidt, L Lebreton, G Opondo, L, N Simon, K Raubenheimer, N Urho, S Unger, D Azoulay, T Farrelly, J Sousa, H Van Asselt, G Carlini, C Sekomo, M Schulte, P Busch, N Wienrich, L Weiand

Summary

The IUCN Close the Plastic Tap programme synthesized four years of experience implementing plastic pollution hotspot mapping and action planning in Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Cyprus, Thailand, and Tanzania. The project identified major plastic waste sources, pathways, and leakage points in each country. The resulting guidance helps governments design targeted, evidence-based policies to reduce plastic entering the environment.

Knowledge gathered over the past four years in the IUCN Close the Plastic Tap programme is the basis of this publication. It presents a summary of methodologies, results, and key lessons learned from the use of the UNEP/IUCN National Guidance for Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action in Kenya, Menorca (Spain), Mozambique, Republic of Cyprus, South Africa, Thailand, United Republic of Tanzania, and Viet Nam. The key takeaway from this research is that there is a pressing need to use sciencebased plastic leakage assessments to drive policy and behavioural changes that will reduce plastic pollution. Furthermore, IUCN’s comprehensive methodology and tools provide a holistic package to build capacity for stakeholders to understand and manage marine plastic pollution.

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