National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Plastics & Pollution
Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste calls for a national strategy by the end of 2022 to reduce the nation's contribution to global ocean plastic waste at every step - from production to its entry into the environment - including by substantially reducing U.S. solid waste generation. This report also recommends a nationally-coordinated and expanded monitoring system to track plastic pollution in order to understand the scales and sources of U.S. plastic waste, set reduction and management priorities, and measure progress.
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