On November 21, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of the National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution: Part Three of a Series on Building a Circular Economy for All. According to EPA, together with EPA’s “National Recycling Strategy” and the “National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics,” the “National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution” presents opportunities for voluntary and regulatory actions by businesses, academia, industry, non-governmental organizations (NGO), federal, Tribal, state, local, and territorial governments, and consumers. EPA states that “[t]ogether, these U.S. entities could eliminate the release of plastic waste from land and sea-based sources into the environment by 2040.”

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