Plastics, gender and the environment

• Executive summary
• Main findings from the literature study 
• The report
• Table of Contents
• Tables, figures and boxes
• Abbreviations
• Introduction - The nexus of gender and plastic

1. Understanding the overall dimensions of gender in plastic production and consumption

2. Workforce and exposure in the plastic industry

• 2.1  Socially determined factors of the workforce
• 2.2 Physiological differences between women and men often incompatible labour protection    policies
• 2.3  Worker´s exposure to hazardous chemicals

3. Overview of hazardous chemicals in plastics and their impact on women´s and men´s health

• 3.1 Plastics, EDCs and observed healtheffects

4. Exposure to hazardous chemicals from some everyday products

5. Gender and microplastics management

• 5.1 Background
• 5.2 Products that contain microplastics and the role of men and women in production    consumption
• 5.3 Microplastics in the environment and its sources
• 5.4 Can we manage microplastics in the environment – and what is the role for men/women as agent of change?

6. Marine environment: Exposure to (micro-) plastics and health aspects for aquatic organisms

• 6.1    Occurrence and pathways of (micro-) plastics in the marine environment
• 6.2    Uptake of plastic particles and transfer between trophic levels
• 6.3    Plastic uptake and accumulation in animals 
• 6.4    Seafood and gender aspects
• 6.5    Fishing related marine litter and gender

7. Plastic waste management

• 7.1    Municipal solid waste generation 
• 7.2    Plastic Recovery rates
• 7.3    Collecting and Recycling practices
• 7.4    Landfills and dumping; controlled and uncontrolled
• 7.5    Incineration: controlled and uncontrolled

8. Green consumerism, environmental awareness and behaviour

• 8.1 Social  determinants and plastic exposure
• 8.2 Gender roles in waste generation and management
• 8.3 Factors  influencing pro-environmental behavior and attitudes 

9. Wastewater

• 9.1 Microplastics in wastewater 
• 9.2 Personal Hygiene and wastewater: Gender aspects

10. Bio-plastics and classification of plastic waste 

• 10.1 Bio degradable and bio-based plastics
• 10.2  Classification of plastic waste

11. Main findings from the Literature review

12. Recommendations

13. Women and men as agents of change

• Annex 1
• Bibliography