Browsing IUCN-WCPA Best Practice Protected Area Guidelines and other Practices by Subject "Plastic litter"

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Review of plastic footprint methodologies: Laying the foundation for the development of a standardised plastic footprint measurement tool.

Boucher, Julien; Dubois, Carole; Kounina, Anna; Puydarrieux, Philippe (International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland, 2019)

Of the 8,300 million tonnes (Mt) of plastic produced from 1950 to 2015, only 7% has been recycled while more than half has been discarded in landfill or leaked into the environment. Plastic leakage into the environment ...