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Global Plastic Pollution and Its Regulation: History, Trends, Perspectives, by Gerry Nagtzaam, Geert Van Calster, Steve Kourabas and Elena Karataeva Edward Elgar, 2023, 343 pp, £115 hb, £25 ebk ISBN 9781800373549 hb, 9781800373556 ebk

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Global Plastic Pollution and Its Regulation: History, Trends, Perspectives, by Gerry Nagtzaam, Geert Van Calster, Steve Kourabas and Elena Karataeva Edward Elgar, 2023, 343 pp, £115 hb, £25 ebk ISBN 9781800373549 hb, 9781800373556 ebk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2024

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Violet M. Ross*
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 2024 , pp. 227 - 231
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1 Current progress of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution is available at: https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution.

2 Nielsen, T.D. et al., ‘Politics and the Plastic Crisis: A Review Throughout the Plastic Life Cycle’ (2020) 9(1) WIREs Energy and Environment, article e360CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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4 Basel (Switzerland), 22 Mar. 1989, in force 5 May 1992, available at: http://www.basel.int.

5 See Decision BC-14/12 of the Basel Convention's 14th Conference of the Parties, Basel (Switzerland), 29 Apr.–10 May 2019, in force 1 Jan. 2021, available at: https://www.basel.int/TheConvention/ConferenceoftheParties/Meetings/COP14/tabid/7520/Default.aspx.

6 Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Pollution by Solid Wastes, 中华人民共喝过固体废物污染环境防治法 [adopted 1995, last revised in 2020]. See also Brooks, A.L., Wang, S. & Jambeck, J.R., ‘The Chinese Import Ban and Its Impact on Global Plastic Waste Trade’ (2018) 4(6) Science Advances, article eaat0131CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.

7 Jambeck, J.R. et al., ‘Plastic Waste Inputs from Land into the Ocean’ (2015) 347(6223) Science, pp. 768–71CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.

8 Alpizar, F. et al., ‘A Framework for Selecting and Designing Policies to Reduce Marine Plastic Pollution in Developing Countries’ (2020) 109 Environmental Science & Policy, pp. 25–35CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

9 Mah, A., ‘Future-Proofing Capitalism: The Paradox of the Circular Economy for Plastics’ (2021) 21(2) Global Environmental Politics, pp. 121–42CrossRefGoogle Scholar.