National Guidance for Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action

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The  attention  on  plastic  pollution  has  intensified  in  recent years among national governments and the global community. The ‘National Guidance for Plastic Pollution Hotspotting and Shaping Action’ aims to provide a structure for the methods of identifying plastic leakage ‘hotspots’, finding  their  impacts  along  the entire  plastic  value  chain, and then prioritising actions once these hotspots are identified. The Guidance sprung from our desire to address the challenge to define an effective strategy to  address plastic pollution, in a systemic way. It is aimed at enabling countries, regions, or cities to take and use this structure, or framework, in their own environments.