Priority areas of intervention to curb marine litter from food and beverage plastic packaging in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.

The Regional Activity Centre for Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP/RAC) has published the policy brief “Priority areas of intervention to curb marine litter from food and beverage plastic packaging in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro", to inform on the findings of the first phase of activities in the three Adriatic countries, supported through the Bilateral Cooperation Agreement.

The objective of these activities is to contribute to the prioritization and adoption of preventive measures that tackle plastic packaging in the food and beverage industry, by improving the relevant policy framework, strengthening the engagement of businesses and business support organizations (BSOs) and building other relevant stakeholders’ capacities.

The policy brief builds on the findings of the material flow and policy gap analyses per country which include the estimation of the relative contribution to the generation of mismanaged plastic packaging waste. It notes major progresses achieved and common challenges faced by the three countries in aligning their legal and policy frameworks to the plastic packaging-related Barcelona Convention provisions and in moving forward in the transition to a circular economy based plastic packaging system. It finally suggests a set of priority areas of intervention toward those goals, particularly from the public policy perspective.

Download the policy brief in English here. Find it also in Albanian  and  Bosnian/ Montenegrin.