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United Nations efforts to advance a global treaty on plastic pollution echo past multilateral agreements that tackled ozone layer depletion and acid rain.
Promoting small actions, such as reducing plastic use, can be a useful entry point for other actions around climate change. It’s an example of ‘positive spillover behaviour’.
Pam Longobardi collects and documents ocean plastic waste and transforms it into public art and photography. Her work makes statements about consumption, globalism and conservation.
Better enforcement of existing international laws would be a much faster way of addressing plastic pollution from fishing vessels than waiting for a new treaty to be adopted.
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Lecturer, School of Agriculture and Food Science & Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland
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PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Law, University of Canterbury
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Regents' Professor of Art and Design, Georgia State University
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Ending Plastic Waste Mission Director, CSIRO
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CSIRO
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Associate Professor, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Gothenburg
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Scientist, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ
