Find below the news releases, the OECD reports, the Policy briefs and Working papers, the Environment Focus blog including events related to the OECD work on plastics:

 

Latest releases

Interim findings - Towards Eliminating Plastic Pollution by 2040 A Policy Scenario Analysis (November 2023)

Policy Highlights: Climate Change and Plastics Pollution - Synergies between two crucial environmental challenges (May 2023)

 

• Working Paper: Monitoring trade in plastic waste and scrap (March 2023)
• Policy Highlights: Cost and financing for a future free from plastic leakage (January 2023)

 

News releases

• Global plastic waste set to almost triple by 2060, says OECD (2022)
• Plastic pollution is growing relentlessly as waste management and recycling fall short, says OECD (2022)
• OECD countries make partial progress updating rules on international shipping of plastic waste (2020)

 

Reports

• Technical Report: Modelling plastics in ENV-Linkages - A novel approach to projecting plastics use and waste (2022)
• Policies to Reduce Microplastics Pollution in Water: Focus on Textiles and Tyres (2021)
• A Chemicals Perspective on Designing with Sustainable Plastic: Goals, Considerations and Trade-offs (2021)
• Global Material Resources Outlook to 2060: Economic Drivers and Environmental Consequences (2019)
• Improving Markets for Recycled Plastics: Trends, Prospects and Policy Responses (2018)

 

Policy briefs and papers

• Towards G7 action to combat ghost fishing gear (2021)
• Improving Resource Efficiency to Combat Marine Plastic Litter – G20 Issue Brief (2019)
• Improving Plastics Management: Trends, policy responses, and the role of international co-operation and trade (2018)

 

Working papers

• The role of development co-operation in tackling plastic pollution - Key trends, instruments, and opportunities to scale up action (2022)
• Quantifying environmentally relevant and circular plastic innovation: Historical trends, current landscape and the role of policy (2022)
• Monitoring trade in plastic waste and scrap (2022)
• The cost of preventing ocean plastic pollution (2022)
• Preventing single-use plastic waste: Implications of different policy approaches (2021)
• Policy approaches to incentivise sustainable plastic design (2019)

 

Environment Focus blog

• COVID-19 and the looming plastics pandemic (2020)

 

Past events

• OECD event: Towards an international treaty on plastics pollution - Reflections on selected issues (2023)
• 3rd Regional Ocean Policy Dialogue on Marine Plastic Pollution in Southeast Asia (Bali, Indonesia, 3-4 May 2023)
• Workshop report on flexible food-grade plastic packaging (2022) 
• OECD Workshop on Reducing Marine Plastic Litter (2020)
• Global Forum on Environment: Plastics in a Circular Economy - Design of Sustainable Plastics from a Chemicals Perspective (2018)

 

OECD work on plastics

• Ocean pollution
• Sustainable Chemistry

 

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