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.

Where Is the Value in the Chain? Pathways out of Plastic Pollution

Based on new insights from accumulated experience with existing policies and presenting new analysis from two newly developed models to address key market and policy failures, the report shows that a comprehensive mix of coherent policy instruments is most effective to prevent plastic pollution.

Our planet is choking on plastic

This is an interactive source showing the brief information on global plastic pollution problem and strategies to tackle this issue.

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.

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.

Discovery and quantification of plastic particle pollution in human blood

This study’s goal was to develop a robust and sensitive sampling and analytical method with double shot pyrolysis - gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and apply it to measure plastic particles ≥700 nm in human whole blood from 22 healthy volunteers.

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.

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.

Clean Cities Blue Ocean Initial Gender Assessment

This tool was developed by USAID’s Clean Cities, Blue Ocean (CCBO) program to help each of its partners assess whether and how their own organization applies a gender lens and identify areas where the organization may need to think about more thoroughly in terms of gender.

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.

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.

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.

Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060

The Global Plastics Outlook: Policy Scenarios to 2060 provides such a forward-looking perspective. The report presents a set of coherent projections on plastics to 2060, including plastics use, waste as well as the environmental impacts linked to plastics, especially leakage to the environment.

SPHERE: the packaging sustainability framework

https://www.wbcsd.org/contentwbc/download/14021/202395/1

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).

Project on Developing a Policy Framework for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging Waste in Thailand - Executive Summary

This executive summary presents key findings on the present situation and the policy proposal on the project on developing a policy framework for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging waste in Thailand.

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.