Enabling Change from Country to Local Levels - Flipbook - Page 7
Figure 6.
Data Collection of Barriers
UPSTREAM
BARRIERS
MIDSTREAM
(Country policies)
DOWNSTREAM
Lack of pro-environment
behaviors
Limited to no systems approach
to developing/implementing
solutions
Finance Structuring
Material & Chemical
Standards
Capacity building
Import & Export
Restrictions
Commercial marketing
misrepresentation and
misinformation
Limited understanding of
alternative products and
materials
Access to resources
Finance Structuring /
Material & Chemical
Standards / Import &
Export Restrictions
Technological integration
& standarization
Limited understanding of waste
management processes for
different plastic types
Access to waste management
facilities
Import & Export
Restrictions / Material &
chemical standards
Logistical integration
Access to knowledge or
knowledge networks - how
and with whom to collaborate
Access to informal waste sector /
lack of formality of this sector
which makes them unreliable for
people to rely on them
Accountability & Liability
Standards
Import & Export
Restrictions
Legislative enforcement
Capacity building
Well-being support
Lack of policy enforcement due to
lack of understanding or capacity
Citizen willingness to take action
not supported by government,
policies, and marketing
Mistrust in local government
Cultural inhibitions
Accountability & Liability
Standards
Well-being support
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Connectedness to
community and nature
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