尽管政府已开始实施新的（通常相当严格）旨在治理塑料废物的监管 — — 比如中国在2008年开始禁止使用轻质塑料购物袋 — — 但并不足以解决越来越严重的塑料废物问题。
While governments have begun to implement new (and often quite strict) regulations aimed at managing plastics waste – for example, China banned lightweight plastic shopping bags in 2008 – they are inadequate to address the world’s growing plastics-waste problem.