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The municipality of Taytay in Palawan, Philippines, is intensifying its efforts to mitigate marine plastic pollution through a strengthened partnership...
WWF-Turkiye partners with local NGOs to improve informal recycling in Şahinbey, Türkiye’s second-largest district
In January 2024, WWF-Türkiye...
Plastic Smart Cities (PSC) Thailand is a four-year program (2021-2024) financially supported by the NRK & Norad through World Wide Fund for Nature...
Reuse systems for packaging focus on systems where packaging can be used multiple times for the same purpose. This helps reduce waste and the need for...
Municipal solid waste management (MSWM) is a basic service, yet over 2.7 billion people still lack access to collection, and 40% of collected MSW is open-dumped...
March 2025 – The Plastic Smart Cities (PSC) programme in Thailand has successfully reduced plastic waste at source by more than 50 tonnes and recovered...
Plastic Smart Cities in Indonesia kicked off the waste sorting curriculum in 3 schools jointly with Rekam Nusantara, Urban Sustainability, the Ciliwung...
On 16 July 2024, Goa took a significant step towards sustainable waste management with the inauguration of Project SAIM (Sustainable Approach to Integrated...
Reuse is a critical lever in tackling global plastics pollution and contributes to tackling other environmental challenges. Moving from single-use to reuse...
The municipality of Taytay in Palawan, Philippines, is intensifying its efforts to mitigate marine plastic pollution through a strengthened partnership with WWF-Philippines. A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed on April 7, 2025, to...
WWF-Turkiye partners with local NGOs to improve informal recycling in Şahinbey, Türkiye’s second-largest district
In January 2024, WWF-Türkiye launched a groundbreaking three-year project titled “Innovative Business Models for Gaziantep...
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...
Reuse systems for packaging focus on systems where packaging can be used multiple times for the same purpose. This helps reduce waste and the need for single-use materials. Here, consumers purchase products—often food or beverage, personal care, or household...
Municipal solid waste management (MSWM) is a basic service, yet over 2.7 billion people still lack access to collection, and 40% of collected MSW is open-dumped or burned. This global waste emergency has severe local and global impacts — extending services...
March 2025 – The Plastic Smart Cities (PSC) programme in Thailand has successfully reduced plastic waste at source by more than 50 tonnes and recovered over 2,000 tonnes of plastic (as of December 2024) for recycling across four pilot municipalities,...
Plastic Smart Cities in Indonesia kicked off the waste sorting curriculum in 3 schools jointly with Rekam Nusantara, Urban Sustainability, the Ciliwung Naturalization Task Force, Plastic Smart Cities, and the participating schools in August 2024.
Since...
On 16 July 2024, Goa took a significant step towards sustainable waste management with the inauguration of Project SAIM (Sustainable Approach to Integrated Waste Management). This initiative—a collaboration between WWF-India and Saahas Zero Waste—aims...
Reuse is a critical lever in tackling global plastics pollution and contributes to tackling other environmental challenges. Moving from single-use to reuse models presents one of the biggest opportunities to reduce plastic pollution.1 It is estimated...
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) has developed the Waste Wise Cities Tool (WaCT) and the Waste Flow Diagram (WFD) in various partner cities as part of the effort to establish a baseline for the Plastic Smart Cities (PSC) program and TVA. There...