SPRE UN REGIM JURIDIC INTERNAȚIONAL AL DEȘEURILOR DE PLASTIC (DE LEGE FERENDA)
TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL LEGAL REGIME OF PLASTIC WASTE (BY FERENDA LAW)

Summary/Abstract: Within the so-called ”Antropocene” age, the pattern of a global consumist society, often destructive or at least deprived of appropriate measures of environmental protection and regeneration, rises, at the beginning of XXIst century, a problem of how to augment the juridical responsibility for states and also, for non-states actors (transnational corporations, international organizations, individuals etc.), inclusively regarding a type of pollution more and more disseminated (the pollution with plastic products), but insufficiently analyzed and treated by juridical academics. At present, it isn’t a clear normative international basis universally opposable, especially devoted to this particular form of pollution (unlike the pollution with oil, which is precisely regulated in the environmental law). Among the comercial actors, we note that EU developed recently a whole legislation (of regulation, sanctions, and prohibitions) regarding this type of pollution (with special focus in combating the plastic waste and its effects on marine habitats). Nevertheless, any type of habitat (natural and human) is directly exposed to this type of pollution generated by the global consumist society, by the expansion of global markets and by the industrial production of plastic objects. Our paper explores briefly several international documents that can reprezent a legal basis in insuring an international regime of combating this type of pollution, that in future might be enriched by a special international convention devoted to this.

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