Blended Financing

Blended Financing

Blended finance is an approach that blends scarce public concessional funds with private sector commercial capital to realize innovative, high-impact infrastructure projects that do not yet have a commercial track record. TARGET USERS: Individuals, Businesses, Industry, Government KEY CONSIDERATIONS: Blended finance helps rebalance investors’ risk-return profiles and allows the leveraging of public funds to crowd in private sector […]

Waste Worker Inclusion

Waste Worker Inclusion

Waste Worker Inclusion into the formal waste management system recognizes the value these workers bring to the local economy, particularly waste collection and recycling sectors, and supports their health and safety so they can sustain their livelihoods.  TARGET USERS: Individuals, Businesses, Industry, Government KEY CONSIDERATIONS: Today, there are an estimated 15 million waste pickers who remove 15-20% of […]

Research Assessment on the Attitudes and Motivations of Women in Waste

Research Assessment on the Attitudes and Motivations of Women in Waste

Studies on plastics and gender displayed three overarching concepts including women’s interlinked role with household care, their role in the plastics value chain, and perception of hazard in the waste sector. Environmental behaviors often serve as animpetus for determining green consumptionpractices (Zhao et al., 2021), with womenendorsing stronger pro-environmentalattitudes than men. Aruta (2021) observedthat women […]

The city of Izmir has a new plan of action to tackle plastic pollution

The city of Izmir has a new plan of action to tackle plastic pollution

Since August this year, Izmir, the third most populous city in Turkey, has a new Plan of Action to tackle plastic pollution. The Plan is an important milestone of the engagement Izmir has taken since it joined WWF’s Plastic Smart Cities Initiative in 2019. The mayor of Izmir, Tunç Soyer, explained some of the main […]

Plastic Waste Learning Module (for student)

Plastic Waste Learning Module (for student)

Plastic Waste Learning Module by WWF-Indonesia This learning module is designed for students to understand the current global environmental issue, plastic waste. This module is expected to become a learning tool that motivates students to think more critically and creatively about plastic and how to implement it in their daily lives. Language: Bahasa Indonesia