A decision framework for estimating the cost of marine plastic pollution interventions.

ABSTRACT: Marine plastic pollution has emerged as one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. Although there has been a surge in global investment for implementing interventions to mitigate plastic pollution, there has been little attention given to the cost of these interventions. We developed a decision support framework to identify the economic, social, and ecological costs and benefits of plastic pollution interventions for different sectors and stakeholders. We calculated net cost as a function of six cost and benefit categories with the following equation: cost of implementing an intervention (direct, indirect, and nonmonetary costs) minus recovered costs and benefits (monetary and nonmonetary) produced by the interventions. We applied our framework to two quantitative case

SUBMITTER: Murphy EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9292852 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature