Thematic Areas

Sustainable plastics production and consumption
  • Reduction – substitution
  • Plastics in packaging
  • Simplification and bio-based materials innovation
  • Company reporting and disclosure
  • Plastics in agriculture and aquaculture
  • Food waste prevention and plastics
Health and plastics
  • Chemicals: additives, NIAS, legacy substances
  • Life cycle assessment-based approaches
  • Understanding impact on different receptors
  • Hazard vs. risk approaches
  • Nano-plastics health effects
  • Open uncontrolled burning and health
Just transition: baselines and futures
  • Informal waste workers empowerment
  • Citizen participation and science
  • Cost and benefits distribution
  • Financing just transition
  • Indigenous communities
  • Just transition across the world and stakeholders
Science-policy interface
  • Databases, metrics and indicators
  • Triple planetary crisis nexus
  • Effectives of policies
  • National Action Plans
  • Source inventories
  • Legalities of plastic pollution legally binding instrument
Emissions, sources, pathways and receptors
  • Quantifying pollution emissions
  • Uncontrolled open burning and leakage
  • From macro to nano scales: degradation and fragmentation
  • Pollution dispersion: from land to sea to air
  • Recycling plants emissions
  • Biodiversity loss
Plastics circularity vs. waste management
  • Innovation throughout plastics value chain
  • Quantifying circularity and uptake
  • Recycling vs. collection vs. prevention
  • Product design for circularity and waste
  • Reuse and resources recovery
  • Chemical recycling uptake
Financial mechanisms
  • The financial landscape for a legally binding instrument
  • Extended Producer responsibility on various scales
  • Outcome/results-based financing
  • Financing plastics innovation
  • Theory of Change
  • Overseas development assistance
Monitoring and modelling methods - harmonization
  • Baseline and the missing plastics (mass balancing)
  • Harmonisation and standardisation
  • Advances in laboratory quantification and sampling
  • Remote sensing and plastic pollution quantification and monitoring
  • AI – sensor based and satellite innovative solutions
  • Citizen science role
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