Join our SPPGA Policy in Practice panel discussion on sources of plastics in the environment and policies for their mitigation. The discussion will be moderated by David Boyd, Associate Professor of Law, Policy, and Sustainability at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability and currently serving as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment. Welcome remarks will be provided by MPPGA student Denby McDonnell.
*Watch the video of this event on the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs Facebook page.
The topics and panelists are:
- Plastics Futures: modelling the impact of mitigation strategies for reducing plastic pollution to evaluate their effectiveness for reducing plastic emissions to the environment.
Stephanie Borrelle is a David H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Her current research applies ecological population modelling techniques to evaluate how different mitigation strategies contribute to reducing plastic entering the world’s oceans. Stephanie is based at the University of Toronto in the Rochman Lab, and affiliated with Ocean Conservancy and the University of Georgia in the Jambeck Research Group.
- Relating Policies to Mitigate Plastics Discharge to Plastics Observed in the Environment: Investigating how the metrics and categories used by citizen science groups to record plastic debris collection results at shoreline cleanup events in British Columbia (BC) relate to those used by the provincial government and industry to track the performance of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy for packaging waste.
Lucas Harris is a Senior Policy Analyst, Extended Producer Responsibility with the BC Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy and a MA Candidate in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
- The EU Single-Use Plastics (SUP) Directive. Describing the Directive, policy work and process that led to the EU ratification of measures to mitigate the discharge of plastics to the environment.
Dominic Hogg, has more than twenty five years’ experience in the field of the environment as an academic, campaigner and consultant. He is the founding Director of Eunomia. His work ranges from policy and strategic studies through to due diligence for funding organizations. He is renowned for cross-disciplinary, policy-relevant studies of strategic, economic and environmental significance.
- Policies to Drive a Circular Economy for Plastics. Defining a circular economy for plastics, the barriers to circularity in a market economy with a fossil based petro-chemical sector and policy measures that will lead to increased use of renewable plastic chemistries and reuse and recycling of plastics in Canada.
Usman Valiante is a senior policy analyst and commercial strategist with 27 years of experience in the fields of environmental science and economics, corporate and commercial strategy, public policy development, regulatory and institutional design, advocacy, negotiation, consultation and communications.
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