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
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
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 Singapore | WWF Singapore x Sentosa Disposable Playbook
Sentosa Playbook for Reducing Disposables
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]