On April 21st, during the "Earth Week," the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft of the "National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution" and opened it for public comments until June 16th. The "Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution," builds upon EPA’ s National Recycling Strategy and focuses on actions to reduce, reuse, collect, and capture plastic waste. EPA identified three key objectives for the strategy: reduce pollution during plastic production; improve post-use materials management.; prevent trash and nanoplastics from entering waterways and remove escaped trash from the environment. The EPA adopting a circular approach to plastics management in the U.S. involves a number of actions: understanding the effectiveness of programs and policies and preventing plastic pollution through reducing, reusing, collecting and capturing plastics from land-based sources; improving the U.S. capacity to reuse and refill products; increasing data availability and conducting life cycle assessments to understand the environmental, economic, social and health impacts attributed to plastics; addressing and improving consumer outreach and understanding of the proper management of plastic and other waste; and improving the wastewater management and capture systems.
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