The status and trends of riverine plastic pollution in the Lower Mekong River Basin
- DOI
- 10.52107/mrc.aqrsb2
- Title
- The status and trends of riverine plastic pollution in the Lower Mekong River Basin
- Author
- MRC
- Abstract
- This report explains the status and trends of plastic waste pollution in the Lower Mekong River Basin from the perspectives of plastic pollution itself as well as the frameworks and capacity of each Member Country to address the issues of plastic pollution. The report estimates that in 2020, its four countries had produced about 8 million tons of plastic waste – of which, some 70% to 90% were plastic bottles, plastic bags and Styrofoam. Yet this debris does more than adversely affect the Mekong and its tributaries.
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- Publisher
- MRC Secretariat
- Categories
- Reports Technical Paper Series
- Keywords
- Mekong River, plastic pollution, riverine plastic
- Access
- Open Access
- Copyright
- MRC
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0
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MRC. (2022). The status and trends of riverine plastic pollution in the Lower Mekong River Basin. Vientiane: MRC Secretariat. https://doi.org/10.52107/mrc.aqrsb2