Table 4.

Different strategies to combat the MPs all around the globe by different countries

Year	Country/organization	Strategies/Act	Goal	References
2012	Netherland/The Dutch Plastic Soup Foundation	‘Beat the Microbead’ campaign	To remove plastic microbeads from personal care products	Dauvergne (2018)
2015	US	The Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015	To forbid the deliberate production and selling of non-biodegradable plastic microbeads in rinse items for personal care	McDevitt et al. (2017)
2015	United Nations (UN)	Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development	To minimize the adverse impact on human health and the environment due to loss of plastics, chemicals, and waste materials in the atmosphere	Rosa (2017)
2016	Canada	Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA)	To prohibit the import and export of personal care exfoliating goods containing microbeads	Pettipas et al. (2016); Zuzek (2016)
2016	World Economic Forum (WEF)	The New plastics Economy	To minimize plastic waste leakage into a natural environment and recycle reuse, and control plastics material biodegradation	The New Plastics Economy (2016)
2017	UK	United Kingdom Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, 2016	To ban microbeads in cosmetic and personal care goods	Xanthos and Walker (2017)
2017	China	Ban the import of 32 kinds of solid wastes, including plastic waste	To achieve global environmental sustainability by realizing the transition from export to domestic management and from landfilling to recycling	Wen et al. (2021)
2018	Japan	Recycle and reuse all plastics, including electronic appliances and automobile parts	Reducing disposable plastic waste by 25 percent by 2030	The Japan Times (2018)
2018	Canada/G7	Strategy on zero plastic waste/Ocean Plastics Charter	To take action on resource-efficient life cycle management approach to plastics in the economy	CCME (2018)
2016/2018/2021	India	Ban single plastic bags/ Banned plastic bags below 50 μm	India Proposes Phase-Out of Single-Use Plastic Items by 2022	Laskar and Kumar (2019); “The National Law Review” (2021)
2011–2021	Nepal	Plastic Bag Regulation and Control Directive 2011; Solid Waste Management (SWM)	Single plastic banned; banned < 40 micron thickness plastics	Bhardwaj et al. (2020); UNDP (2021)