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Prawna ochrona wód powierzchniowych przed zanieczyszczeniem mikroplastikiem w UE i w Polsce

This Polish legal analysis reviews EU and Polish regulatory frameworks for protecting surface waters from microplastic contamination, including the European Green Deal and circular economy plan. The paper assesses how effectively current water and waste management laws address microplastic pollution and identifies remaining regulatory gaps.

2023 Gdańskie Studia Prawnicze
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Environmental and Spatial Aspects of Pollution of the Territory of Ternopil Region with Microplastic Masses

Researchers assessed microplastic pollution across the Ternopil region of Ukraine, finding that environmental degradation of discarded plastic waste produces widespread invisible microparticle contamination with adverse implications for ecosystem and human health.

2023 Regional’ni aspekti rozvitku produktivnih sil Ukraїni 1 citations
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Issues of Implementation of Priority Strategic Initiatives in Laws on Waste

This study examines legal barriers to implementing circular economy principles in Russian waste legislation, identifying regulatory gaps related to preventing microplastic spread during waste handling and proposing reforms to improve environmental protection frameworks.

2025 Ecological law
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Legal protection of Lake Baikal from microplastics

This study examines the legal frameworks needed to protect Lake Baikal from increasing microplastic pollution, analyzing existing Russian environmental law alongside international and comparative foreign legislation. The authors recommend a set of interrelated general and region-specific legal measures targeting both primary and secondary microplastic sources within the Baikal natural territory.

2024 Gosudarstvo i pravo
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Investigation of Prevailing Directives Regarding Microplastic Pollution

This review examines prevailing regulations and directives governing microplastic pollution, which enters land and water environments through inadequate plastic waste management and urban wastewater discharge. The authors analyze gaps in current policy frameworks and assess the effectiveness of existing global and regional legislative approaches.

2024
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Sigurnost hrane- karakteristike zakonodavstva i izazovi

This Croatian-language paper reviews European Union food safety legislation, explaining how regulatory frameworks protect consumers from food-borne risks. It is a food law review paper not focused specifically on microplastics.

2020
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From macro- to microplastics - Analysis of EU regulation along the life cycle of plastic bags

This paper analyzed EU regulations on plastics across the product lifecycle — from manufacture to disposal — identifying gaps and inconsistencies that allow microplastics to enter the environment despite existing legislative frameworks.

2017 Environmental Pollution 145 citations
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From micro to macro: legal tools for combating plastic pollution at national, EU, and international levels

Researchers analyzed how laws at the national, European Union, and international levels have evolved to address microplastic pollution, tracing the shift from voluntary guidelines to binding rules like the EU's 2023 restriction on synthetic microparticles. The review identifies ongoing challenges — including inconsistent definitions and weak enforcement — and calls for stronger global governance to close the legal gaps.

2026 Environmental Sciences Europe
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The Environmental Challenges of Polythene and Production and Prevention Legislation in the World

This review examines the global environmental impact of polythene plastic pollution, discussing its effects on aquatic ecosystems and public health while analyzing the international and regional legislative frameworks aimed at reducing plastic production and use.

2023 2 citations
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Revisiting environmental policy in India: An analysis of structure, process, and institution

This analysis of Indian environmental policy examined its structural evolution, legislative processes, and implementation effectiveness, identifying gaps between legal frameworks and on-the-ground enforcement. The paper highlights plastic pollution and emerging environmental issues as areas where existing policy structures require strengthening.

2023 International Journal of Political Science and Governance 3 citations
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Legislation to limit the environmental plastic and microplastic pollution and their influence on human exposure

This review surveys global legislation aimed at limiting plastic and microplastic pollution, including bans on single-use items, recycling mandates, and clean-up initiatives across different countries. The study also discusses how these regulations may help reduce human exposure to plastics and their associated toxic chemicals, though enforcement and scope remain uneven worldwide.

2021 Environmental Pollution 99 citations
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Assessing and managing environmental hazards of polymers: historical development, science advances and policy options

Researchers critically reviewed how polymer environmental safety regulations, largely unchanged since the 1990s, fail to keep pace with scientific understanding of plastic pollution. They identified four key areas needing regulatory attention, including better transparency about polymer identities, improved understanding of environmental fate across size categories, and more comprehensive hazard assessments. The study suggests that current regulatory frameworks worldwide need significant updates to adequately manage the environmental risks posed by polymers.

2022 Environmental Science Processes & Impacts 46 citations
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Environmental Problems in Obtaining and Application of Polymer Composites in the Republic of Belarus

This paper discusses environmental challenges associated with manufacturing and using polymer composite materials in Belarus, touching on pollution risks from plastic production processes.

2023 Polymer materials and technologies
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Rethinking plastic recycling: A comparison between North America and Europe

Researchers compared plastic recycling rates and infrastructure between North America and the European Union, arguing that higher EU landfill and incineration costs create economic incentives for recycling that have driven greater industrial innovation and cleaner polymer streams — while both regions continue to rely on opaque offshore export as a de facto disposal method.

2023 Journal of Environmental Management 26 citations
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Global Plastic Pollution and the Transition Towards a Circular Economy: Lessons from the EU’s Legal Framework on Plastics

This paper reviews the EU legal framework on plastics and the transition toward a circular economy, examining how regulatory instruments including the Single-Use Plastics Directive and extended producer responsibility schemes can reduce the billions of tons of plastic waste generated annually.

2024 Environmental Policy and Law 5 citations
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Freshwater Pollution by Plastics – Transboundary Pollution and Liability

This legal analysis examined the environmental and health risks of plastic and microplastic pollution in freshwater systems, reviewing the existing international and national legal frameworks for addressing transboundary pollution. The authors identified significant gaps in liability and enforcement mechanisms for freshwater microplastic contamination.

2025 Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Law = Agrár- és Környezetjog
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Assessing Indonesia’s Environmental Laws Pertaining to the Abatement of Marine Plastic Pollution: A Euphemism?

This study examined Indonesia's environmental laws governing marine plastic pollution, finding significant gaps between legislative intent and enforcement capacity, and arguing that stronger regulatory frameworks, improved waste infrastructure, and community-based approaches are needed to reduce the country's large contribution to ocean plastics.

2022 Jurnal Media Hukum 7 citations
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Avrupa Bi̇rli̇ği̇ Ve Türki̇ye Mevzuati Ve Uygulamasinin Deni̇z Çöpü Problemi̇ Bağlaminda Değerlendi̇ri̇lmesi̇

This paper evaluates how European Union and Turkish law address the problem of marine litter, including microplastics. It finds gaps in current regulatory frameworks and argues for stronger, more coordinated policy to prevent plastic waste from reaching the ocean.

2021 OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University)
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Efektivitas Hukum Lingkungan Dalam Mengurangi Sampah Plastik Di Lautan Indonesia Pada Era Globalisasi

Researchers examined the effectiveness of environmental law in reducing plastic waste in Indonesian seas during the era of globalization, assessing whether legal frameworks and the spread of awareness through social media can meaningfully curb plastic pollution in marine ecosystems.

2023 Gorontalo Law Review 3 citations
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Environmental problem of microplastics in Southern Bessarabia

Researchers investigated microplastic pollution in the Southern Bessarabia region of Ukraine, examining drinking water extracted from 40-meter depth wells and finding microplastic contamination linked to inadequate municipal solid waste management practices in Danube Delta communities where waste is buried rather than processed.

2022 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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An International Legal Framework for Marine Plastics Pollution

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.

2023 Cambridge University Press eBooks 2 citations
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Managing Microplastics for Sustainable Agriculture : Legal and Policy Perspectives from the EU and Serbia

This review examines existing EU and Serbian legal frameworks, regulatory approaches, and policy measures addressing microplastic management in agriculture, analyzing how current and proposed legislation supports sustainable farming goals and food safety under the 2030 Agenda.

2025 REDUN - Repository of the EDUCONS University
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The Role of Legislation, Regulatory Initiatives and Guidelines on the Control of Plastic Pollution

This review examines existing plastic pollution regulations globally, finding that despite many proposals and national bans, the overall effectiveness of legislation is unclear and most measures focus narrowly on marine plastics or single-use items. The authors argue that laws often lag behind science and face practical limitations given how deeply embedded plastics are in daily life.

2020 Frontiers in Environmental Science 220 citations
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Environmental Degradation and Legal Accountability: Strengthening India’s Response to Pollution and Climate Crisis

Not relevant to microplastics — this appears to be a legal and policy paper about environmental degradation and accountability in India, with an abstract that inconsistently describes a study on waste management education among women; it does not present original microplastic research.

2026 International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology