Honing The Habit: Four Insights On Spreading Recycling Behavior

This report provides an overview of Delterra’s approach to recycling behavior change and it shares the key insights and practical lessons from Delterra’s programs in Indonesia and Argentina.

The Building Blocks of a Circular Economy: USAID’S Local Systems Approach to Reducing Ocean Plastic Pollution

This brief describes each building block, outlines custom performance indicators, and provides examples to address key constraints to develop programs that use a systems approach and consider context-specific mechanisms and tools.

Producer Responsibility in Indonesia

This paper focuses on so-called producer responsibility for packaging in Indonesia to paint a fair picture of the current state of affairs around producer responsibility in Indonesia.

The Barrier of Garbage in Panama City

Panama City has a high ratio of incorrectly disposed waste, reaching its rivers and the sea. To prevent solid waste further polluting its water bodies, the City partnered with a not-for-profit to install waste containment barriers, preventing waste dumped in the rivers from reaching the ocean where it would be harder to intercept.

Closing the Plastics Circularity Gap

The report analyses the total annual plastic production, the amount of plastic from “circular supply chains,” that is, mechanically or chemically recycled plastic.

Gender and the Environment : Building Evidence and Policies to Achieve the SDGs

Based on the SDG framework, this report provides an overview of the gender-environment nexus, looking into data and evidence gaps, economic and well-being benefits, and governance and justice aspects. It examines nine environment-related SDGs (2, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12 and 15) through a gender-environment lens, using available data, case studies, surveys and other evidence.

Stopping Ocean Plastic Pollution from Cities: A USAID Case Study from Parañaque City, Philippines

This case study examines the activities of USAID’s Clean Cities Blue Ocean program in Parañaque City, Philippines using the lens of USAID’s building blocks for preventing ocean plastic pollution.

The Annual Climate Action Monitor

The Climate Action Monitor, part of the International Programme for Action of Climate (IPAC), provides a diagnostic policy framework for assessing country progress towards climate objectives. Its goal is to provide a digest of progress towards, and alignment with, Paris Agreement goals to support countries in making better-informed decisions and allow stakeholders to measure improvements more accurately.

Impacts Of Plastic Pollution In The Oceans On Marine Species, Biodiversity And Ecosystems

The review reveals that projected growth of plastic pollution is likely to result in many areas suffering significant ecological risks harming current efforts at protecting and increasing biodiversity if action is not taken now to cut global production and use of plastic.

Expectations and constraints of plastic packaging waste recyclers under the future EPR scheme in Vietnam: Results from an online social survey

This document includes information on (1) Creating a guideline dedicated to classify and measure plastic packaging collection and recycling in rural and urban areas; (2) Improving waste sorting at source by consumers; (3) defining best practices for plastic packaging in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

ReShaping Plastics – Pathways to a Circular, Climate Neutral Plastics System in Europe

ReShaping Plastics focuses on four of the most important plastic-using sectors: packaging, household goods, automotive, and construction, and presents six scenarios, outlining which actions should be prioritized for different plastic applications in order to meet circularity and climate mitigation goals.

Plastic Waste Material Flow Analysis for Thailand

This study aims to better understand how plastic waste travels from land-based sources to marine environments by analysing the material flow of plastic waste in five high-priority catchments and three tourist hotspots in Thailand.

Policy Brief: Developing a Policy Framework for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging Waste in Thailand

This policy brief summarizes key findings regarding the current situation of packaging waste management and the policy proposal based on the concept of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR).

Unlocking the Plastics Circular Economy: A Toolkit for Investment

The toolkit is developed by the Global Plastic Action Partnership’s (GPAP) to facilitate investment in a circular economy for plastics.

Project Opportunities to Accelerate Clean, Healthy Cities and Seas

This booklet for the cities of Can Tho, Melaka, Panama City, Pune and Semarang identifies opportunities by city stakeholders, in close collaboration with the Urban Ocean program, as high-impact solutions for multiple challenges.

Microsoft’s Xbox Controller Packaging: Sphere Case Study

This initial case study was used to test the SPHERE framework on a real-world packaging application which allowed Microsoft to take a more holistic view of packaging sustainability in comparison to current methods and KPIs.

Alternative plastic: Is it the answer to ending marine plastic pollution?

This briefing considers the environmental fate and impact, feasibility of use, and potential drawbacks associated with bioplastics, bio-based, biodegradable, oxo-(bio)degradable and compostable plastics, which are often referred to as ‘alternative plastics’ and which are increasingly being put forward as solutions to the problem of marine plastic pollution.

Recommendations for Recycled Content: Requirements for Plastic Goods and Packaging

This report evaluates the current plastics recycling landscape and outlines the benefits of, and recommendations for, minimum post-consumer recycled (PCR) content requirements for plastic products and packaging on a national level within the United States.

WWF Position: Chemical Recycling Implementation Principles

WWF released this position on the Chemical Recycling Implementation Principles to help inform if and how, the emerging waste management technology should be pursued as a plastic waste mitigation tactic.

Refuse-Derived Fuel in Indonesia

This document analyses the application of Refuse Derived Fuels (RDFs) in Indonesia, its impact on the environment, and provides a set of recommendations on handling RDFs in the country.