Many countries already have laws around waste or littering that cover pellet pollution incidents. Communities and NGOs have successfully mounted legal cases against companies found to be breaking these laws through chronic pellet pollution.
Opportunity
The high profile of individual cases puts pressure on the wider industry to make change.
Money raised by litigation can also be used for campaigns to raise the profile of pellet pollution. Companies are often required to clean up polluted sites.
Challenge
It is hard to prove exactly where pellets came from once in the environment. Some cases have required evidence from years of monitoring. While existing laws might catch some of the worst offenders, small-scale, chronic leaks are unlikely to be tackled, which still add up to an enormous pollution problem.
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