The Plastic treaty: What is in it for Africa?
Issued Date
2023-06-01
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eISSN
27692450
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Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85193118761
Journal Title
Public Health Challenges
Volume
2
Issue
2
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SCOPUS
Bibliographic Citation
Public Health Challenges Vol.2 No.2 (2023)
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Shomuyiwa D.O., Onukansi F.O., Ivanova M., Lucero-Prisno D.E. The Plastic treaty: What is in it for Africa?. Public Health Challenges Vol.2 No.2 (2023). doi:10.1002/puh2.83 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/98738
Title
The Plastic treaty: What is in it for Africa?
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Abstract
The new plastic treaty, slated for 2024, represents a shift in the global fight to address environmental pollution and degradation. The international agreement, unlike previous resolutions, covers the lifecycle of plastics and represents a legally binding instrument for ending plastic pollution across all ecosystems. Plastic waste contamination poses significant challenges to African nations. It challenges food security, ecological variation and economic development. The African region has been identified with a high level of enactment of waste management policies but a deficiency of sustainable measures to adopt and implement these policies. The new treaty could provide an instrument for collaboration and innovation and set the stage for Africa to transition to a sustainable plastics environment that promotes zero-waste.