Amsterdam Initiates Plastic Monitoring With Debris Tracker
The city of Amsterdam initiated plastic monitoring activities on March 3, 2022, as part of the city’s baseline assessment, using the Debris Tracker app for data collection activities, and a group of citizen scientist volunteers. The city’s monitoring activities are mapped across 22 locations and over 7 city districts, with a plastic monitoring list comprised of 34 unique items. The initial monitoring events will […]
UN Member States Unanimously Agree on Legally Binding Plastics Treaty
UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) unanimously agreed to develop a legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution.
WWF-Philippines on Plastic
Inadequate solid waste management has been identified as one of the leading causes of marine pollution. It has been estimated that plastic debris from land-based sources makes up to 80% of marine pollution and can be found from shallows down to the deepest parts of the ocean. In the Philippines, there are five target sites for Plastic […]
Dubrovnik Adopts Decision to Restrict Single-use Plastics
Dubrovnik decided on restricting single-use plastic for all public administrative bodies, institutions, city-owned companies, and events.
Trogir Adopts City Action Plan on Plastics
Trogir Adopts City Action Plan on Plastics, a plan that will last from 2021-2026, becoming the second city in Croatia to do so.
Five Impact Driven Start-ups Selected for Plastic Smart Cities Bootcamp
After undergoing a 60-day challenge to achieve milestones, five start-ups presented their accomplishments, challenges, learnings, and next steps to a selection panel comprised of xchange, Villgro Philippines, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines, The Incubation Network, and makesense. The selection panel assessed the entrepreneurs’ progress, learning agility, entrepreneurial mindset, and commitment to determine which of the entrepreneurs would go […]
Dubrovnik Adopts Action Plan to Tackle Plastic Pollution
The Plastic Smart City of Dubrovnik has formally adopted the first plan of actions to tackle its plastic pollution by 2026, including key measures to reduce waste production and improve waste collection and disposal. The Plan signed by Mayor Mato Franković was developed in collaboration with the Association for Nature, Environment and Sustainable Development Sunce and […]
Rethinking Recycling Academy and Plastic Smart Cities Tackle Waste in Bali
Rethinking Recycling Academy is a capacity-building program launched by McKinsey.org, in partnership with the Plastic Smart Cities Initiative, to transform the waste management ecosystem in Ubung Kaja village, Bali, Indonesia. Plastic Smart Cities (PSC) is a WWF initiative that works with cities around the world to keep plastic away from nature. Ubung Kaja is a village […]
Venice and WWF- Together Against Plastic Pollution
Today, the City of Venice has formally joined the global WWF Plastic Smart Cities initiative. With the approval of the proposal presented by Councillor for the Environment Massimiliano De Martin, Venice is the first Italian city to join the initiative and commit to eliminate plastic leakage in nature by 2030. In his announcement, Councillor De […]
WWF-Philippines Partners With Nestlé to Improve Community Waste Management
Supported by Nestlé Philippines and co-created with KALIPI – a for-women entrepreneurship group – as well as other community members, NAKAMOTO is a local waste collection pilot that uses motorcycles and push carts to support barangays that are not serviced by the municipal waste collection service. NAKAMOTO aims to improve waste segregation for 6 pilot barangays and increase collection capacity in […]