Past Project
Building a roadmap to near zero plastic leakage into the ocean by 2040
In an effort to reduce the flow of plastic entering the ocean, The Pew Charitable Trusts recently launched a project—called preventing ocean plastics—that aims to develop a global roadmap of the economically and politically viable steps needed to solve this problem. We plan to do this by conducting a global economic analysis of different solutions; analyzing the regulatory and voluntary market landscape to determine feasible answers; and convening an expert group to develop the roadmap to achieving near-zero flow of plastic into ocean.
Dr. Jutta Gutberlet is participating in the Expert Panel created by PEW Charitable Trusts and Systemic on Building a roadmap to near zero plastic leakage into the ocean by 2040.
Read: “Hope for Solving Ocean Plastic Problem Lies in Awareness and Economics”
- by the Pew Charitable Trust
Pew Expert Panel group during the workshop in London, UK.
Publications
Lau, W. W. Y, ... Gutberlet, J., .... (2020) Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic waste. Science, 369 (6510):1455-1461. doi: 10.1126/science.aba9475
PEW Charitable Trust & Systemiq (2020) Breaking the Plastic Wave. A comprehensive assessment of pathways towards stopping ocean plastic pollution. Available: https://pew.org/3juDZY4
Empty bottles and other plastic waste cover a beach in Ouzai, Lebanon, on the outskirts of Beirut, in 2019. Photo: Diego Ibarr a SanchezThe New York Times/Redux