03 Dec 2021 --- The US must create a national action plan to reduce its contribution to global plastic marine pollution. Its current infrastructure is “grossly insufficient,” according to a new report by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. The report, titled Reckoning with the US Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste, recommends the US establish a nationally coordinated and expanded monitoring system to track plastic pollution to understand the scale and sources of the plastic waste problem, set reduction and management priorities, and measure progress in addressing it.
