33 U.S.C. § 4263: United States leadership in international FORA

commit to significantly increasing efforts to promote investment in well-designed post-consumer materials management and plastic waste elimination and mitigation projects and services that increase access to safe post-consumer materials management and mitigation services, in partnership with the private sector and consistent with the constraints of other countries; address the post-consumer materials management needs of individuals and communities where access to municipal post-consumer materials management services is historically impractical or cost-prohibitive; to increase access to solid waste and post-consumer materials management services; to utilize safe and affordable alternatives to disposable plastic products, to the extent practicable; to encourage and incentivize the use of recycled content; and to grow economic opportunities and develop markets for recyclable, compostable, reusable, and repurposed plastic waste materials and post-consumer materials and other efforts that support the circular economy; post-consumer materials management; the use of safe and affordable alternatives to disposable plastic products; or beneficial reuse of solid waste, plastic waste, post-consumer materials, plastic products, and refuse; use clear, accountable, and metric-based targets to measure the effectiveness of such projects; and creating tangible metrics for evaluating efforts to reduce plastic waste and marine debris; collecting, disposing, recycling, and reusing plastic waste and post-consumer materials, including building capacity for improving post-consumer materials management; and integrating alternatives to disposable plastic products, to the extent practicable; encouraging the development of standards and practices, and increasing recycled content percentage requirements for disposable plastic products; integrating tracking and monitoring systems into post-consumer materials management systems; how microfibers and microplastics may affect marine ecosystems, human health and safety, and maritime activities; changes in the amount and regional concentrations of plastic waste in the ocean, based on scientific modeling and forecasting; the role rivers, streams, and other inland waterways play in serving as conduits for mismanaged waste traveling from land to the ocean; effective means to eliminate present and future leakages of plastic waste into the environment; and other related areas of research the United States representatives deem necessary; encouraging the World Bank and other international finance organizations to prioritize efforts to reduce plastic waste and combat marine debris; collaborating on technological advances in post-consumer materials management and recycled plastics; growing economic opportunities and developing markets for recyclable, compostable, reusable, and repurposed plastic waste and post-consumer materials and other efforts that support the circular economy; and solid waste; post-consumer materials; plastic waste; and marine debris.