ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the worsening plastic waste crisis is a failure of transboundary environmental governance. The author also shows that inequality and injustice are deeply embedded in this sector, in terms of those who contribute to the problem and in those who suffer from it. The author then uses Southeast Asia as a brief case study given that it is home to four of the world’s worst six plastic polluting countries – Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam – and has becoming the new dumping ground of the world’s plastic waste. The author also discussed the impact of COVID-19 in the region and show how injustice related to plastic waste has arisen in the region.
