WWF-Thailand | A Handbook for Developing Plastic Smart Cities in Thailand

WWF-Thailand | A Handbook for Developing Plastic Smart Cities in Thailand

Plastic Smart Cities (PSC) Thailand is a four-year program (2021-2024) financially supported by the NRK & Norad through World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Norway. Plastic Smart Cities are cities that aim to have zero plastic leakage into nature. The program’s overall objective is to reduce plastic leakage by 30% in the near term, and […]

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 […]

National Geographic | Sea to Source Method Toolkit

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 […]

GIZ | Waste Flow Diagram Toolkit

GIZ | Waste Flow Diagram Toolkit

GIZ, University of Leeds, Eawag Aquatic Research, and wasteaware created this Waste Flow Diagram toolkit, which is an excel-based model allowing users to perform a rapid assessment of municipal solid waste flows within a city or municipality. The tool maps these waste flows using Sankey diagrams and quantifies the plastic waste that is emitted from […]

CSIRO | Handbook of Survey Methodology of Plastics Leakage

CSIRO | Handbook of Survey Methodology of Plastics Leakage

This Handbook provides detail on the various survey methodologies used by CSIRO’s team that focus on plastic pollution on land and at sea – in upland, riverine, coastal and marine environments. We invite you to follow our methodologies in order to develop consistent, robust datasets across various geographies that can be used in understanding waste […]

NOAA | Marine Debris Shoreline Survey Field Guide

NOAA | Marine Debris Shoreline Survey Field Guide

Marine debris has become one of the most widespread pollution problems in the world’s oceansand waterways today. The NOAA Marine Debris Program (MDP) serves as a centralized marine debris resource within NOAA, coordinating and supporting activities within NOAA and with other federal agencies. The MDP uses partnerships to support projects carried out by state and […]