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ClearExploring Plastic-Management Policy in China: Status, Challenges and Policy Insights
Researchers reviewed China's plastic management policies and found that despite being the world's largest plastic producer, existing regulations remain insufficient, recommending strengthened extended producer responsibility and circular economy approaches to control plastic pollution.
China’s regulatory respond to plastic pollution: Trends and trajectories
Analysis of 231 plastic-related Chinese government policies from 2000 to 2021 revealed increasing regulatory attention to plastic pollution with a shift from general waste management toward specific single-use plastic restrictions after 2020. The findings highlight China moving toward more targeted plastic governance despite its large contribution to global ocean plastic.
Study on the Spatial Pattern of the Carbon Footprint of China’s E-Commerce Express Packaging Considering Embodied Carbon Transfer
Despite its title referencing e-commerce packaging, this paper studies the carbon footprint of China's express delivery packaging industry — not microplastic pollution. It quantifies CO2 emissions across the packaging lifecycle and traces carbon transfers between provinces, finding that plastic packaging generates roughly twice the upstream emissions of paper packaging. This paper is not relevant to microplastics or human health.
Plastic Waste and a Circular Economy in China
This review examines China's plastic waste management challenges and the country's progress toward implementing circular economy principles for plastic recovery and recycling. As one of the world's largest plastic producers and consumers, China's plastic waste policies have major global implications for the amount of plastic that ultimately becomes microplastics.
Looking for a Chinese solution to global problems: The situation and countermeasures of marine plastic waste and microplastics pollution governance system in China
This study analyzed China's marine plastic waste and microplastic pollution governance system, examining policy frameworks across blue economy development, plastics industry reform, and public health awareness, while proposing countermeasures to curb marine pollution intensification.
The Legal dilemmas and pathways for managing plastic waste pollution in China: An assessment of current regulations and a vision for future governance frameworks
This paper systematically analyses the current state of plastic waste legal regulation in China and proposes a framework for future governance, examining how the rapid growth of the e-commerce, express delivery, and food delivery industries has sharply increased plastic product consumption. The authors assess existing regulatory gaps and outline pathways toward more effective and comprehensive plastic waste management law.
Research and management of plastic pollution in coastal environments of China
This review summarizes research on plastic pollution in China's coastal environments, noting that as the world's largest producer of plastic waste, China faces significant environmental challenges. Researchers found that microplastics have been detected in surface waters, sediments, and the water column along Chinese coasts from both land-based and sea-based sources. The study highlights that while national-level policies address plastic waste broadly, there is virtually no legislation specifically targeting microplastic pollution.
Progressing Towards Environmental Health Targets in China: A Systematic Review of Achievements in Air and Water Pollution under the “Ecological Civilization and the Beautiful China” Dream
This systematic review summarizes China's progress in reducing air and water pollution under its environmental health initiatives. The findings are relevant to microplastic concerns because China is a major producer and consumer of plastics, and the review highlights how industrial pollution, including plastic waste, creates widespread environmental contamination with direct consequences for public health.
Study on China’s Plastic Consumption Trend and Sustainable Development Countermeasures
Despite its title referencing plastic consumption, this paper focuses on forecasting China's future plastic demand and proposing policy frameworks for the plastics industry — not on microplastic pollution or health effects. It examines production trends, packaging, construction, and automotive sectors, and is a policy and economics paper rather than a microplastics science paper.
Analysis of plastic waste reduction and recycling in Taiwan
This paper analyzes Taiwan's plastic waste reduction and recycling policies over recent years, finding improvements in recycling rates but ongoing challenges with single-use plastics and microplastic pollution. The Taiwanese experience offers policy lessons relevant to other countries grappling with plastic waste management.
Toward Economically Efficient Carbon Reduction: Contrasting Greening Plastic Supply Chains with Alternative Energy Policy Approaches
This paper is not directly about microplastics; it compares the carbon-reduction potential and cost-effectiveness of recycled plastics, bioplastics, and virgin plastics within supply chains, finding recycled plastics offer the best low-cost carbon reduction despite quality concerns.
Management strategy of plastic wastes in Taiwan
This review covers Taiwan's plastic waste management strategies including collection systems, recycling infrastructure, regulations, and extended producer responsibility programs, documenting the country's relatively high recycling rates compared to regional peers. The authors identify challenges remaining in addressing microplastic pollution and managing complex multi-layer plastic packaging waste streams.
Research on Ecological Effects of Microplastics and Removal Methods
This Chinese-language review systematically examines how microplastics contaminate water, soil, and air, damage ecosystems by disrupting water cycles and enriching heavy metals in soil, and surveys available removal technologies. It highlights both the breadth of ecological harm microplastics cause and the practical options for removing them from different environmental compartments.
The contamination of microplastics in China's aquatic environment: Occurrence, detection and implications for ecological risk
This review summarized microplastic contamination across marine environments, freshwater systems, and wastewater treatment plants in China, one of the world's top plastic-producing countries. The study highlights that research on how microplastics transfer between connected water environments remains lacking, and the microscale toxicity of microplastics is still poorly understood.
Microplastic Pollution in China, an Invisible Threat Exacerbated by Food Delivery Services
This review examines how the explosive growth of online food delivery services in China is driving a major increase in single-use plastic packaging waste. The resulting plastic pollution contributes to microplastic contamination in urban environments, particularly through packaging that is improperly discarded.
A critical review on the sources and instruments of marine microplastics and prospects on the relevant management in China
This critical review examined sources, distribution, and monitoring instruments for marine microplastics in China, identifying key knowledge gaps and proposing management strategies to address the country's significant contribution to global ocean plastic pollution.
Recycling Laws and Their Evaluation in Japan
Japan's suite of recycling laws — covering packaging, appliances, vehicles, construction materials, and food waste — is reviewed alongside the emerging microplastics problem and Japan's policy responses to it. The paper highlights that existing recycling frameworks were not designed with microplastics in mind, creating regulatory gaps that need to be addressed as plastic debris increasingly fragments into microscale particles.
Mapping Flows, Stocks, Plastic Emissions, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Polyurethanes: Decoding Challenges and Pollution Prevention Pathways in China
Researchers mapped material flows, stocks, plastic emissions, and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the polyurethane life cycle, identifying production, use, and end-of-life stages as key hotspots for both microplastic release and carbon emissions.
A critical review of microplastic pollution in urban freshwater environments and legislative progress in China: Recommendations and insights
This critical review examines microplastic pollution across urban freshwater environments in China, synthesizing findings on contamination levels, sources, and ecological effects in a context of rapid urbanization affecting over 800 million urban residents. The authors review legislative progress and provide recommendations for improving monitoring standards, reducing plastic inputs, and aligning Chinese policy with international frameworks.
Occurrences and distribution of microplastic pollution and the control measures in China
This review summarizes reported microplastic contamination levels in China's marine, freshwater, and atmospheric environments, finding that concentrations are highest in urbanized freshwater systems and identifying human population density and agricultural plastic use as key drivers.
A review of microplastic pollution in seawater, sediments and organisms of the Chinese coastal and marginal seas
This review compiled microplastic abundance and characteristics data from seawater, sediments, and marine organisms across China's coastal and marginal seas, finding widespread contamination linked to China's extensive plastic production and mismanaged waste streams.
Environmental processes and ecological effects of microplastics in the ocean
This Chinese review examines the environmental processes and ecological effects of microplastics in ocean environments, covering how plastics degrade, distribute, and interact with marine organisms. It discusses both physical and chemical toxicity mechanisms and the potential for microplastics to transfer up the food chain.
[Research Progress on Distribution Characteristics and Formation Mechanisms of Microplastics in the Environment].
This Chinese-language review discusses the distribution characteristics and formation mechanisms of microplastics in environmental compartments, covering how physical wear, UV radiation, and microbial degradation fragment larger plastics under natural conditions. The review highlights the lack of effective recycling systems and the resulting accumulation of microplastics across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
Impact of Microplastics in the Environment on Human Health and Its Policy Analysis: A Case Study on China
Researchers examined the health impacts of microplastics in China from a health economics and public policy perspective, finding that plastic waste is associated with increased demand for respiratory medicines, likely due to airborne MP release. The paper reviews China's microplastic policy landscape and proposes four improvement areas including targeted monitoring and clearer departmental responsibilities.