Single-use Beverage Cups and Their Alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments

This report summarizes current knowledge about the environmental performance of single-use beverage cups and their alternatives in order to guide policy actions to regulate their use.

Bridging the Gap in Solid Waste Management: Governance Requirements for Results

This paper provides practical guidance on waste management governance to national and local authorities as well as practitioners.

ASEAN Regional Action Plan for Combating Marine Debris in the ASEAN Member States (2021-2025)

The Regional Action Plan proposes an integrated approach to address marine plastic pollution in ASEAN over the next five years (2021-2025), drawn from the inputs from regional stakeholders and the 10 ASEAN member states.

The Plastic Waste Makers Index

This report identifies the companies that produce from fossil fuels the five primary polymers that generate the vast majority of single-use plastic waste globally – and the investors and banks funding them.

Effectiveness of Intervention on Behavior Change Against Use of Non-Biodegradable Plastic Bags: A Systematic Review

This review examines various government regulations targeted at changing behavior against plastic bags consumption and their effectiveness.

A Sea of Plastics Claims and Credits: Steering Stakeholders Towards Impact

As more companies and governments make commitments to address plastic pollution, several plastic offset claims and credit schemes have emerged...

Circular Transition Indicators v2.0 - Metrics for Business, by Business

This report presents the framework of Circular Transition Indicators (CTI) v2.0, a tool created by WBCSD and 30 companies to support business need for a universal and consistent way to measure its circularity.

Market Study for Thailand: Plastics Circularity Opportunities and Barriers

This report focuses on the market assessment of plastics value chains and the recycling market in Thailand with the overall goal of identifying the opportunities and barriers for plastics circularity in the country.

Market Study for the Philippines: Plastics Circularity Opportunities and Barriers

This study addresses the critical need for a private sector focused market assessment of plastics recycling in the Philippines.

Market Study for Malaysia: Plastics Circularity Opportunities and Barriers

This study gives a market assessment of the plastics value chain in Malaysia.

Universal Circular Economy Policy Goals: Enabling The Transition to Scale

This paper sets out five universal circular economy policy goals around which government and businesses can align to achieve their common objectives.

Addressing Single-Use Plastic Products Pollution using a Life-Cycle Approach

The report summarizes the key conclusions on the environmental performance of eight different single-use plastic products compared to their alternatives

Ecosystem of Waste: The Role of Waste Pickers and Street Vendors in Curbing Coastal Pollution at Carnaval in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

This report gives an understanding of the interlinkages between consumers, waste pickers, street vendors and other municipal actors who enable the municipality of Salvador to adequately manage waste and avoid uncontrolled marine plastic pollution during Carnaval in this coastal city.

The Understanding Packaging (UP) Scorecard

The UP Scorecard is a science-based online tool to help users select foodware and food packaging that is safe and environmentally sustainable.

Bankrolling Plastics: The Banks That Fund Plastic Packaging Pollution

This report analyses loans to forty companies which operated within industry sectors linked to the plastic value chain.

Reuse Wins: The Environmental, Economic, and Business Case for Transitioning From Single-Use to Reuse in Food Service

This report reviews the life-cycle studies comparing the environmental impacts of disposables versus reusables, the economic data available on savings to businesses, and projects the growth opportunities for the sector for investors and entrepreneurs.

NOAA Marine Debris Program - Education

This platform provides various educational resources on the problem of marine debris.

Rethinking Single-Use Plastic Products In Travel and Tourism

The report is a first step to mapping single-use plastic products across the Travel & Tourism value chain, identifying hotspots for environmental leakages, and providing practical and strategic recommendations for businesses and policymakers.

Curbing Coastal Pollution: Informal Workers’ Critical Role

This short report makes recommendations for bringing waste picker and street vendor groups together so they can strategize on how best to cooperate in fulfilling their environmental role in curbing plastic pollution.

Pandemic Pollution - The Rising Tide of Plastic Waste

This report presents the findings of Ocean Conservancy's latest coastal cleanup where using volunteers they measured the amount of PPE (personal protective equipment pollution) in various places in the environment.