Acknowledgments

We thank the experts who contributed scholarly input during the January 2024 workshop on plastic governance but declined to co-author this paper: Andrés del Castillo (Center for International Environmental Law), Bahar Koyuncu (Ellen MacArthur Foundation), Beatriz Vidal Legaz (European Environment Agency), and Mari Erlandsen (European Environment Agency). Five other contributors from the European and national public administrations preferred not to be named due to their professional roles and are, therefore, acknowledged collectively. The views expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the workshop contributors or their institutions. Moreover, S.H.J.M., F.B., T.H., L.J.N., E.D., and T.O. acknowledge funding from the 10.13039/100007633Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra) through the program STEPS—Sustainable Plastics and Transition Pathways. T.H. and T.O. also acknowledge funding from the 10.13039/501100002808Carlsberg Foundation through GreenTraC—Green Transition Policy Centre. P.V.-G. acknowledges funding from the 10.13039/501100004359Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS) for the project “The plastics pollution challenge: a global social-ecological perspective” (No. 2020-01295). K.S. acknowledges funding from the 10.13039/100007214Velux Foundation through MarinePlastic II. The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the authors and in no way represent the views of the European Commission and its services.