ABSTRACT
The impacts of plastic and microplastic pollution have gained great attention globally. Many worldwide organizations and collaborators have exhibited their commitment to tackling plastic pollution such as United Nations, International Group of Seven Countries (G7) and Group of Twenty Countries (G20), World Economic Forum, etc., have been involved in setup policies, authorities, forums, and campaigns to bring all the stakeholders to act prominently on this pressing pollution problem. It is known that plastic pollution usage problems involve multi-level parties from oil and petrochemical operators, plastic manufacturers, consumer goods producers, retailers, consumers, waste collectors, regulators, recyclers, as well as political interests, etc. Plastic consumers products are known to be cheap and available abundantly; however, the cleaning up of plastic wastes, particularly those found in ocean, lakes, rivers, or burial soils requires technological advancement and efforts and is time consuming and costly. Basel Convention, for instance, is one of the comprehensive global environmental treaties made to address hazardous wastes, or more accurately, to avoid irresponsible parties transporting the hazardous wastes out from the waste-generating countries. This is to provide additional protection to the countries from being exploited by irresponsible parties and becoming hazardous waste dumping places. Most important, all the countries in the world should work hand-to-hand together to fight against plastic pollution.
