Say No to Plastic: Policy Analysis and Power Holder Mapping Report

This report examines the issue of plastic usage and its environmental impact. It analyzes the current policy environment, focusing on the Australian context, and explores strategies to reduce plastic waste, such as promoting reusable bags and community awareness. The report also includes a power holder map, illustrating factors that either support or oppose the reduction of plastic usage. These factors include the production of reusable bags, depletion of non-renewable resources by plastic production, the widespread use of plastic in Australia, and the reuse of paper waste. The analysis highlights the need for alternative solutions and the importance of addressing the negative impacts of plastic on the environment. The report references relevant studies and provides a comprehensive overview of the topic.

Running head: SAY NO TO PLASTIC
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Table of Contents
Analyzing the policy environment..........................................................................................2
Power holder maps...................................................................................................................2
References.................................................................................................................................4

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Analyzing the policy environment
The use of plastic is increasing in the environment day by day and this has harmful effect on
the environment by harmful emissions and depletion of essential resources. This is because
plastic uses non-renewable source such as crude oil, gas and other which one depleted cannot
be recovered (Boucher and Friot 2017). Some of the determined policy of by the Australian
economy to reduce plastic waste and usage are:
1. Say no to plastic while shopping anytime.
2. Use alternative to plastic bags such as cloth or paper bag that are reusable
3. Conduct community meeting to spread the awareness of negative impact of plastic
usage
4. Gain support for the campaign from the Federal Government
This will help reduce the production costs, consumption costs and better litter in the
environment. This also limits the depletion of non-renewable resources and reduces
health risk in the environment.
Power holder maps
The objective of the paper is to reduce the usage of plastic and say no to plastic usage.
However the power holder maps shows four factors that strongly support the objective and
others that strongly oppose the objective of reducing plastic usage (Jakovcevic et al.2014).

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Production of paper and
cloth bags (reusable bags)
Depletion of
non-
renewable
resources by
plastic
production
Maximum
usage of
plastic in
Australia
Reusing the waste material
generated by paper
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Figure: Power Holder Maps
Source: Author’s creation
The above map shows that use of paper and cloth bags and reusing the waste generated by
paper bags supports the objectives of reducing plastic usage and accepting the usage of
reusable bags. The depletion of the non-renewable energy resources also shows the need of
using alternative bags rather than plastic. Whereas, the objective seem to oppose by the factor
that people of Australia are still using plastic bags for their daily activities.

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References
Boucher, J. and Friot, D., 2017. Primary microplastics in the oceans: a global evaluation of
sources. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
Jakovcevic, A., Steg, L., Mazzeo, N., Caballero, R., Franco, P., Putrino, N. and Favara, J.,
2014. Charges for plastic bags: Motivational and behavioral effects. Journal of
Environmental Psychology, 40, pp.372-380.