WWF Position: Plastic Crediting and Plastic Neutrality

WWF Position: Plastic Crediting and Plastic Neutrality

Position Paper: No Plastic in Nature April 2025 Position Paper Summary Plastic does not belong in nature. In order to achieve No Plastic in Nature by 2030, a combination of various coordinated strategies must be pursued. Strategies driven by the private sector must include reducing single use plastic, shifting to sustainable inputs for necessary plastic, […]

World Bank | Navigating Plastic Management: Tools for Government Action Planning

World Bank | Navigating Plastic Management: Tools for Government Action Planning

Plastic pollution is a global challenge, affecting ecosystems, livelihoods, and human health. Its impacts are recognized at the international level where efforts are underway to develop an international legally binding instrument (ILBI) on plastic pollution (‘Plastic Treaty’). In order to understand the scale and nature of plastic pollution—and identify and implement potential solutions—many different approaches, […]

WWF | Making the Global Plastics Treaty Work for Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises

WWF | Making the Global Plastics Treaty Work for Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises

New report by WWF and Ellen MacArthur Foundation analyses how to make the global plastic pollution treaty work for micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). The report also makes recommendations for how global rules across the plastic value chain can stimulate new marked opportunities. MSMEs represent 90% of businesses worldwide. They are engines of innovation, particularly […]

Kearney | Solving Plastic Waste: Roadmap for a Sustainable Future

Kearney | Solving Plastic Waste: Roadmap for a Sustainable Future

India generates more than 10 million tons of plastic waste each year. A new paper by Kearney and the Confederation of Indian Industry maps out a comprehensive initiative to address this challenging landscape. Each step of the plastics value chain requires close examination to identify issues and drive potential solutions:

Center for International Environmental Law | Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution

Center for International Environmental Law | Making Plastic Polluters Pay: How Cities and States Can Recoup the Rising Costs of Plastic Pollution

This report outlines the myriad of impacts resulting from the plastics crisis, the burden on states and municipalities, why the plastics industry is responsible, and how government attorneys may hold the industry accountable for its harms. States, counties, and municipalities bear the brunt of the plastics crisis. The impacts associated with the plastics crisis are […]

WWF | Case Studies from Asia: City-Level Learnings for the Global Plastic Pollution Treaty

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 […]

OECD | Extended Producer Responsibility: Basic Facts and Key Principles

OECD | Extended Producer Responsibility: Basic Facts and Key Principles

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach that makes producers responsible for their products along the entire lifecycle, including at the post-consumer stage. This policy paper summarises the current consensus on the EPR policy approach. This document synthesises the current implementing experience with the EPR policy approach to provide policymakers with knowledge on the […]

WWF | Putting an End to Plastic Pollution

WWF | Putting an End to Plastic Pollution

TOWARDS A TREATY TO END PLASTIC POLLUTION: WWFs CALL TO URGENTLY REGULATE HIGH-RISK PLASTIC PRODUCTS FROM POLLUTION TO SOLUTION Plastic is suffocating our rivers and oceans, killing species and contaminating our food, air and water. And the problem is only getting worse. Plastic pollution is a global problem that requires a global solution. Plastic leaking […]

WWF | Breaking Down High-Risk Plastic Products

WWF | Breaking Down High-Risk Plastic Products

The UN Environment Assembly’s decision, in March 2022, to start international negotiations on a plastic pollution treaty marked a watershed moment. Following a successful first session of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee (INC), states and other stakeholders are now committing to paper what the new treaty should contain. As states prepare for the INC’s second session […]