Tag: Single Use Plastic Tax
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The Single Use Plastic Tax
On the 1st of July 2023, the Dutch government implemented the Single Use Plastic (SUP)-Tax (Rijksoverheid, 2023). In this article, we analyse this policy by looking at broader processes of neoliberalism and responsibilization. Neoliberalism, in this instance, refers to the way in which the Dutch government utilizes a market-based solution to the environmental challenge of…