Japan’s Policy for Marine Plastic Litter —Japan’s National Action Plan to Tackle Marine Plastic Litter and Resource Circulation Strategy for Plastics—

Abstract

Japan has been actively promoting international contributions to measures against marine plastic pollution, such as advocating “Osaka Blue Ocean Vision” at the G20 Osaka Summit in 2019. We are also proceeding variety of actions in Japan based on the national action plan to tackle marine plastic litter and resource circulation strategy for plastics formulated in 2019, and regarding fishery-related efforts, we have revised the fishery waste treatment guidelines and been carrying out activities to take ashore marine litter with fishermen’s cooperation. These efforts will be outlined in this article.