Reducing Plastic Pollution by Recovery and Recycling
Evidence from a “Blue Economy” Project Impacting Policy-Making in Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15475767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lorenzo Vassallo (Fondazione Roma), Andrea Appolloni (0000-0001-5741-398X, University of Rome Tor Vergata, corresponding author), Chiara Fantauzzi (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Rocco Frondizi (0000-0002-9913-349X, University of Rome Tor Vergata) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 5604-5604 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph20085604 |
| PMID | 37107886 |
| OpenAlex | W4366771816 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper recognizes the relevance of the Seabed Cleaning Project, created by the Angelo Vassallo Sindaco Pescatore Foundation in 2010, and presents it as a tool to achieve benefits in environmental, social, and economic terms, in line with the innovative framework of the Blue Economy. The project suggests a practical, feasible, and scalable solution to plastic pollution that can be obtained thanks to the activity performed by fishermen in cooperation with the municipality and local community (in a multi-level cooperation perspective). The data show a significant reduction of plastic on the seafloor thanks to the project, but further research is needed in order to collect further positive outcomes from different applications of the project. In 2022, the "Salva Mare" Law was approved in the Senate, extending the good practices proposed by the Foundation nationwide and showing how small gestures and concrete actions can provide significant improvements in pursuit of a healthier, safer, greener, and smarter city for the future
Business · Computer security · Environmental planning · Foundation (evidence · Political science · Relevance (law · SAFER · Coastal and Marine Management · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Law · Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
The Blue Economy and the United Nations’ sustainable development goals
Shades of blue
Blue Economy and Competing Discourses in International Oceans Governance
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework to assess sustainability
Critiques of the circular economy
Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy
Assembling ocean life
The Blue Economy as governmentality and the making of new spatial rationalities
Assembling a Blue Economy moment? Geographic engagement with globalizing biological-economic relations in multi-use marine environments
The blue economy
Institutional Thickness Revisited
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |