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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

Plastic Waste Discharges from Rivers and Coastlines in Indonesia

This study provides an Indonesia-wide assessment integrating local waste data with actual hydrological conditions to tell the story of how local practices contribute to marine plastic pollution.

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.

Extended Producer Responsibility - Statement and Position Paper

The statement and the position paper brings together more than 150 leading businesses and other organisations from across the packaging value chain to publicly express support for the implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility Schemes (EPR) schemes for packaging.

Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2021. Towards Post-COVID-19 Resilient Economies

This report takes stock of the socioeconomic fallout from the current pandemic and looks at past economic and non-economic shocks that have inflicted damage on the region’s sustainable development
prospects in order to draw lessons on how to build forward better during the post-pandemic recovery.

The Circularity Gap Report 2021

This report identifies the circularity gaps in the world, explains the need for a circular economy, and provides solutions and strategies to reduce GHG emissions with circularity.

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.

Circular Economy for Plastics in India: A Roadmap

This report identifies opportunities across the entire value chain of plastics with a specific focus on the downstream issues of avoiding waste and fostering reuse and recycle of plastics. It also provides a roadmap to achieving circularity in India.

The Circular Economy as a De-risking Strategy and Driver of Superior Risk-adjusted Returns

This white paper published by Ellen MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with Bocconi University and Intesa Sanpaolo, sets out new evidence demonstrating how circular economy strategies can de-risk investments and drive superior risk-adjusted returns for investors and financial institutions.