Factsheet 20: Fighting plastics in the environment

Common products discharged into domestic wastewater by consumers. Photo: © FiW e.V.

Factsheet 20: Fighting plastics in the environment

What is the effect of education, labels and fees?

Measures against plastic pollution are urgently needed. However, it is unclear with which instruments this can be done. The Single-Use Plastics Directive stands for the attempt to reduce the input of plastic by private consumers mainly by means of information, e.g. with a specially developed label.

Researchers from the InRePlast project investigated how promising this is by means of an experiment with 1,092 students, which simulated plastic disposal in households. The results are presented in factsheet 20.

The InRePlast project investigates and classifies the occurrence of plastic parts of at least 1 mm in size in sewage treatment plants and street drainage systems in the municipalities of Aachen, Roetgen, Simmerath and Stollberg. Surveys and a laboratory experiment support the analyses. Based on this, proposals for environmental policy instruments to prevent the inputs are developed

Factsheet 20 is available for download here.

Year
2022
Attachments
Link to the factsheet
Type of Result
Citation

Bühren, Christoph, Daskalakis, Maria; Breitbarth, Marco; Hentschel, Anja (2022): Fighting plastic in the environment - What is the effect of education, labels and fees? Factsheet 20 of the BMBF Research Focus Plastic in the Environment.

Joint project
InRePlast
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