Africa Plastic Policy Factsheet - An Overview of Recent Research on Plastic

OECD POLICY HIGHLIGHTS Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060 | OECD 2022 page 1 The Extent of the Plastic Pollution Crisis in Africa The majority of Africa is categorised as ‘low-waste producing polluters’ whereas ‘overloaders’ are largely made up of Global North countries who are high plastic waste generators that export a significant portion of their waste. [...] (Sadan and De Kock, 2021) Plastic Overshoot Day – Report 2024 | EA-Earth Action 2024 Tackling health impacts of plastic pollution in Africa | WHO 2023 The Plastic Atlas | Heinrich Böll Foundation & Break Free From Plastic 2019 Africa Waste Management Outlook | UNEP 2018 Plastic Pollution in Africa: Identifying policy gaps and opportunities | WWF 2021 page 2 The Cost of Plastic Pollution to Africa. [...] (Dalberg, 2021) Environmental and Health Impacts of Air Pollution: A Review | Front Public Health 2020 Plastics: The Costs to Society, the Environment and the Economy | WWF 2021 Africa Waste Management Outlook | UNEP 2018 page 3 Waste Colonialism in Africa Illegal plastic waste exports in the form of e-waste, mixed municipal waste and textile waste into the continent from higher-income Global Nort. [...] The manifestations of waste colonialism in Africa come in all shapes and forms, from electronic waste in Ghana’s most notorious E-waste dump to 282 illegal containers of plastic waste was exported from Italy to Tunisia as mixed municipal waste, to Accra’s markets & Kenya’s rivers flooded with the Europe’s addiction to fast fashion and the US illegally exporting harmful PVC plastic into the Nigeria. [...] Assessing data in the informal e-waste sector: The Agbogbloshie Scrapyard | ScienceDirect 2022 Illegal shipments of Italian municipal waste to Tunisia | Réseau Tunisie Verte, Zero Waste Europe, Basel Action Network and GAIA 2021 Dead white man’s clothes | Foreign Correspondent 2021 Trashion: The stealth export of waste plastic clothes to Kenya | Changing Markets 2023 An Imported Environmental Cris.