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Beyond Existing Legislated Efforts to Control Single-Use Plastics: A Proposal for Ending Fossil-Fuel Subsidies and Standardizing Single-Use Plastic Packaging
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This paper argues that current laws targeting single-use plastics like bags aren't enough, and proposes cutting government subsidies for fossil fuels (which plastics are made from) and creating standard rules for plastic packaging. Fewer single-use plastics could mean less plastic waste breaking down into microplastics that end up in our water, food, and bodies.
15 (2019); see also Plastic bags clogging Bangkok's sewers complicate efforts to fight floods, STRAITS TIMES (Sept.
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