WWF-Philippines | Clean Ports, Clean Oceans: Lessons learned from addressing plastic pollution in the Philippines
Plastic pollution is one of the fastest-growing global environmental problems. It is generally estimated that 80% of marine plastic litter comes from land-based activities and 20% from sea-based activities, such as fishing, aquaculture and shipping. The maritime sector is an essential part of global trade and the economy and includes activities at sea but also […]
PREVENT Waste Alliance | Ending Plastic Pollution in Small Islands and Remote Coastal Areas
Small island communities and remote coastal areas (SICs) find themselves on the absolute frontline of the global plastic pollution crisis, bearing a disproportionate environmental and financial burden. Due to geographic isolation, limited land availability, and small populations that rule out mainland economies of scale, standard waste management models regularly fail in these fragile ecosystems. In […]
WWF | Case Studies from Asia: City-Level Learnings for the Global Plastic Pollution Treaty
As United Nations Member States gather to negotiate a historic global treaty on plastic pollution, this report aims to provide negotiators with policy recommendations derived from on-the-ground interventions from cities in Asia that are tackling plastic pollution. With 60% of plastic waste derived from urban centres, cities are on the frontline of the global plastic […]
WWF | Community Generates Funds from Selling Recyclables through a Waste Bank Initiative
The separation of waste at source is supported through the provision of segregation bins to collect recyclable waste, which is sold to recyclers – this intervention generates income for the community from waste sorting. Background Baan Bang Lha is a community of narrow pathways built on piles in the Tapee River that experiences garbage leakage […]
FAO, IMO | Fishing Gear Recycling Technologies and Practices
The recycling of fishing gear contributes to more sustainable fisheries by supporting responsible fishing gear stewardship. It achieves this by preserving and prolonging the use of valuable gear materials and components, incentivizing the collection and recovery of damaged and end-of-life fishing gears and abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gears, and by providing a valuable […]
APEC Ocean and Fisheries Working Group | Enhancing Labor-intensive Separate Waste Collection and Utilization in APEC Economies
Decision-makers and practitioners often focus on technological solutions for recycling, treating and disposing of waste. However, the key to successful comprehensive waste recovery lies in collection, which accounts for 60 to 80 percent of the total disposal costs. Mistakes made here cannot be compensated for by any technology, no matter how sophisticated. This guide targets […]
Proven Practice Guide to Improve Waste COBSEA, COBSEA, UNEP | Management and Address Plastic Pollution in Southeast Asia
Proven Practices to Improve Waste Management and Address Plastic Pollution in Southeast Asia was codeveloped by Battelle and the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), along with qualitative data gathered across a select group of organizations and programs with demonstrated experience successfully designing and implementing ocean plastics pollution mitigation efforts across Southeast […]
WWF | 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 […]
WWF-Philippines | Waste Management Strategies and Pilot Testing
It has been estimated that Filipinos use 2.15 million tons of plastic annually, the highest in Southeast Asia —with about 750 million tons (35%) going into the open environment—making the country the third-largest plastic waste polluter in the world. WWF-Philippines, in partnership with the Coca-Cola Foundation, implemented the Waste Management Strategies and Pilot Testing for […]
National Geographic | Sea to Source Method Toolkit
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide detailed steps for implementing the methodologies that were carried out during the National Geographic “Sea to Source: Ganges” river expedition (hereafter referred to as the “Sea to Source Expedition”), which set out to better understand and document the characteristics, composition, and flow of plastics in the Ganges […]