The Recycling Partnership | PET Recycling Coalition: Annual Report 2024
This first PET Recycling Coalition annual report illustrates how collective action between brands, communities, recyclers and plastic manufacturers is making it possible for more PET to be recycled and transformed into future packaging. From salad containers and water bottles to clothing and carpet, PET makes up many of the things we use daily. But while […]
Evergreen Labs Advisory | FROM THE MARGINS TO MAINSTREAM: A White Paper on Integrating Informal Sector Workers into Formal Economies in Southeast Asia
This report delves into the critical role of Informal Waste Workers (IWWs) within the wastemanagement system. The primary focus is to analyze the challenges IWWs face and the opportunities for formalizing their work, ultimately improving their working conditions and stabilizing their income. The integration of informal waste workers into formal waste management systems presents a […]
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:
International Institute for Sustainable Development | Avoiding Trade Concerns in the Design of Plastic Pollution Measures: Evidence and recommendations for policy-makers
IISD provides insights on aspects of World Trade Organization (WTO) members’ plastics that have created friction with trading partners and suggests recommendations for the adoption of such policies in the future. The authors identify the nature and categories of the issues that have been raised. This policy brief aims to help policy-makers avoid possible friction […]
Urban Pathway | Waste Wise Cities Tool
Step by Step Guide to Assess a City’s Municipal Solid Waste Management Performance through SDG indicator 11.6.1 Monitoring Waste Wise Cities Tool (WaCT) guides readers through 7 steps to collect data on municipal solid waste (MSW) generated, collected, and managed in controlled facilities. The tool provides a household survey guide for total MSW generation, a […]
ERIA | Breaking the Plastic Habit: A Guidance Note and Practical Toolkit
Behavioural insight interventions to reduce plastic consumption were implemented in four countries in the Asia-Pacific: Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Case studies on the four pilot projects provide a detailed account of the process of designing and evaluating interventions using a variety of behaviour change levers. Lessons and positive outcomes from these pioneering […]
World Bank | Unlocking Financing to Combat The Plastic Crisis: Opportunities, Risks, and Recommendation for Plastic Credits
Plastic pollution has become an urgent global issue (OECD 2022). Policymakers, business leaders, and communities are advancing solutions to address the problem, but a significant financing gap remains for a circular plastics economy. This report explores the viability of plastic crediting as a potential mechanism to finance plastic pollution interventions. To examine plastic crediting potential […]
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-Indonesia | Inspiring Stories of Community-Based Waste Management: Sharing Experiences Across Indonesia via Participatory Action Research
The initiative and role of the community in dealing with waste need to be recognized. Especially when it comes to waste, a problem that never ends. Every effort to strengthen these initiatives and roles certainly has stories of ‘struggle’ that can be a personal and collective community. Including waste banks, NGOs, and communities that are […]
WWF-Philippines | Clean Ports, Clean Oceans: Lessons learned from addressing plastic pollution in the Philippines
Plastic pollution is one of the fastest-growing global environmental problems. It is generally estimated that 80% of marine plastic litter comes from land-based activities and 20% from sea-based activities, such as fishing, aquaculture and shipping. The maritime sector is an essential part of global trade and the economy and includes activities at sea but also […]