CIEL (Center for International Environmental Law)

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• Organization

  High Ambition Coalition to End Plastic Pollution

  Group of countries, co-chaired by Norway and Rwanda, pushing for a treaty that covers the full life cycle of plastic, including production.

  Policy and advocacy
• Law or Bill

  Mexico City single-use plastics ban

  Mexico City, Mexico | In force

  Banned plastic bags in 2020 and many single-use items such as cutlery, straws and cups in 2021.

  Policy and advocacy
• Research

  Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution

  Lau, W. et al. (Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ) | Science | 2020

  Modelled every major intervention together and found that combining reduction, substitution, better collection and recycling could cut plastic flows to the ocean by about 80 percent by 2040. The basis of the report “Breaking the Plastic Wave”.

  Policy and advocacyResearch and science
• Law or Bill

  Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act (US Congress)

  United States | Introduced, not enacted

  Proposed federal bill for national producer responsibility, a bottle deposit and a pause on new plastic plants. Introduced in several sessions; not enacted.

  Policy and advocacy