ArticlePublic health challenges2023
The Plastic treaty: What is in it for Africa?
Article in Public health challenges, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Food classifications provide an approximate packaging indicator to support monitoring of mismanaged plastic waste.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Waste Plastic to Roads - HDPE-modified Bitumen and PET Plastic Fibres for Road Maintenance in South Africa: A Review.Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA · 2024Review
- The Plastic treaty: What is in it for Africa?Public health challenges · 2023Article
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Abstract
The new plastic treaty, slated for 2024, represents a shift in the global fight to address environmental pollution and degradation. The international agreement, unlike previous resolutions, covers the lifecycle of plastics and represents a legally binding instrument for ending plastic pollution across all ecosystems. Plastic waste contamination poses significant challenges to African nations. It challenges food security, ecological variation and economic development. The African region has been identified with a high level of enactment of waste management policies but a deficiency of sustainable measures to adopt and implement these policies. The new treaty could provide an instrument for collaboration and innovation and set the stage for Africa to transition to a sustainable plastics environment that promotes zero-waste.
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