WWF: No Plastic in Nature

Related solutions

• 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

  US Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015

  United States | Law since December 2015

  Federal ban on plastic microbeads in rinse-off cosmetics, prompted by research that included 5 Gyres’ Great Lakes sampling.

  Policy and advocacy
• Law or Bill

  Rwanda single-use plastics law

  Rwanda | In force

  Rwanda banned plastic bags in 2008 and most single-use plastic items in 2019, and co-chairs the High Ambition Coalition.

  Policy and advocacy
• Organization

  IUCN

  Gland, Switzerland

  International Union for Conservation of Nature; runs plastic programmes with island and coastal states. EarthX is an IUCN member.

  Policy and advocacyResearch and science