IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/oec/envaac/12-en.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Improving Plastics Management: Trends, policy responses, and the role of international co-operation and trade

Author

Listed:
  • OECD

Abstract

This Policy Paper comprises the Background Report prepared by the OECD for the G7 Environment, Energy and Oceans Ministers. It provides an overview of current plastics production and use, the environmental impacts that this is generating and identifies the reasons for currently low plastics recycling rates, as well as what can be done about it.

Suggested Citation

  • Oecd, 2018. "Improving Plastics Management: Trends, policy responses, and the role of international co-operation and trade," OECD Environment Policy Papers 12, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:envaac:12-en
    DOI: 10.1787/c5f7c448-en
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1787/c5f7c448-en
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1787/c5f7c448-en?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Loïc Weerdt & Tine Compernolle & Verena Hagspiel & Peter Kort & Carlos Oliveira, 2022. "Stepwise Investment in Circular Plastics Under the Presence of Policy Uncertainty," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 83(2), pages 413-443, October.
    2. Piya Kerdlap & Aloisius Rabata Purnama & Jonathan Sze Choong Low & Daren Zong Loong Tan & Claire Y. Barlow & Seeram Ramakrishna, 2022. "Comparing the environmental performance of distributed versus centralized plastic recycling systems: Applying hybrid simulation modeling to life cycle assessment," Journal of Industrial Ecology, Yale University, vol. 26(1), pages 252-271, February.
    3. Selmi, Refk & Hammoudeh, Shawkat & Kasmaoui, Kamal & Sousa, Ricardo M. & Errami, Youssef, 2022. "The dual shocks of the COVID-19 and the oil price collapse: A spark or a setback for the circular economy?," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).
    4. Willie Doaemo & Sahil Dhiman & Alexander Borovskis & Wenlan Zhang & Sumedha Bhat & Srishti Jaipuria & Mirzi Betasolo, 2021. "Assessment of municipal solid waste management system in Lae City, Papua New Guinea in the context of sustainable development," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(12), pages 18509-18539, December.
    5. Changping Zhao & Mengru Liu & Huanzheng Du & Yu Gong, 2021. "The Evolutionary Trend and Impact of Global Plastic Waste Trade Network," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(7), pages 1-19, March.
    6. Russo, Sofia & Verda, Vittorio, 2020. "Exergoeconomic analysis of a Mechanical Biological Treatment plant in an Integrated Solid Waste Management system including uncertainties," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 198(C).

    More about this item

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oec:envaac:12-en. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/enoecfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.