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| author | Bellomi Valentina |
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| contents | <p>Marine plastic pollution is a wicked problem that needs to be addressed by multi-level governance approaches. As innovative solutions emerge from a variety of non-state actors, more NGOs and companies are creating new arrangements and adopting plastic claims in the form of credits, certifications and labeling schemes. While the current landscape is evolving and new instruments are being developed to meet the needs of different stakeholders, there is still a lack of standards and best practices. This raises questions of transparency and accountability, and makes it difficult to evaluate the real impact of those tools. Even though a growing body of literature is looking at plastic governance, little has been specifically researched about marine plastic claims. This paper fills in this research gap through extensive literature review and semi-structured interviews to small-medium enterprises in the business of transforming marine plastic into valuable products. It provides a comparative assessment of existing arrangements and identifies to what extent they meet the needs of SMEs and startups. As a result, it identifies elements that, if implemented, have the potential to increase credibility and traceability of the system and to facilitate the uniform acceptance and application of marine plastic certifications and other schemes in business.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | MARINE PLASTIC POLLUTION SCHEMES: BRINGING CLARITY IN AN EVOLVING LANDSCAPE Bellomi Valentina <p>Marine plastic pollution is a wicked problem that needs to be addressed by multi-level governance approaches. As innovative solutions emerge from a variety of non-state actors, more NGOs and companies are creating new arrangements and adopting plastic claims in the form of credits, certifications and labeling schemes. While the current landscape is evolving and new instruments are being developed to meet the needs of different stakeholders, there is still a lack of standards and best practices. This raises questions of transparency and accountability, and makes it difficult to evaluate the real impact of those tools. Even though a growing body of literature is looking at plastic governance, little has been specifically researched about marine plastic claims. This paper fills in this research gap through extensive literature review and semi-structured interviews to small-medium enterprises in the business of transforming marine plastic into valuable products. It provides a comparative assessment of existing arrangements and identifies to what extent they meet the needs of SMEs and startups. As a result, it identifies elements that, if implemented, have the potential to increase credibility and traceability of the system and to facilitate the uniform acceptance and application of marine plastic certifications and other schemes in business.</p> |
| title | MARINE PLASTIC POLLUTION SCHEMES: BRINGING CLARITY IN AN EVOLVING LANDSCAPE |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6789054 |