200 groups urge govts in Asia-Pacific to sign global plastics treaty
by admin | March 1, 2022
Groups highlight key waste trade issues to watch out for Manila/Bangkok/New Delhi (February 24, 2022) — More than two hundred environmental groups belonging to the Break Free From Plastic movement in the Asia-Pacific region are urging their respective governments to support the call towards a new binding legal instrument that will cover the entire life cycle of plastics […]
CONTINUE READINGGovernment to regulate environmentally harmful plastic packaging, tyres, e-waste
by admin | August 4, 2020
Massey University’s Political Ecology Research Centre is delighted by the Government’s decision to declare plastic packaging, tyres, electrical and electronic products (e-waste), agrichemicals and their containers, refrigerants, and farm plastics “priority products”. The Ministry for the Environment invited Dr Trisia Farrelly to speak at the launch at Remarkit in Porirua yesterday on behalf of the New Zealand Product […]
CONTINUE READINGWhat Happens to NZ’s Plastic Exports? Stories from Receiving Countries
by admin | July 1, 2020
Following China’s National Sword Programme, most of Aotearoa New Zealand’s (NZ) post-consumer plastics now go to Indonesia and Malaysia.
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