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T1 A Safe(r) Circular Economy for Plastics in the Pacific Region
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A2 Farrelly, Trisia
A2 Fuller, Sascha
A2 Va'a, Nadya
K1 Asia and the Pacific
K1 plastic waste
K1 marine pollution
K1 circular economy
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/37410
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/37410
NO Plastics pollution, including marine litter, is a global social, economic, and environmental emergency requiring urgent attention. Plastics are produced from fossil fuels, and once released into the environment, they never disappear. Instead, they degrade into physical and chemical forms, leading to the contamination of all biophysical systems. If we carry on business-as-usual this will culminate to 1.1 billion tonnes having entered the world’s oceans by 2030.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 20, 2026