Counting Carbon: a lifecycle assesment guide for plastic fuels
The report stresses and demonstrates that the fossil carbon embedded within plastics needs to be traced from the extraction of the fossil carbon to its emission into the atmosphere.
Lead Organization: Bellona Europa, Zero Waste Europe, Rethink Plastic Alliance
Author: Ana Šerdoner
Published on: January 2020
Plastic Atlas
The Plastic Atlas highlights the scale of the crisis, and the global impacts of plastic production, consumption and disposal on other key global challenges such as human health and climate change.
Lead Organization: Heinrich Böll Foundation and Break Free From Plastic
Author: Lili Fuhr, Matthew Franklin
Published on: November 2019
Chemical Recycling: Status, Sustainability, and Environmental Impacts
The report finds that chemical recycling is polluting, energy intensive, and has a track record of technical failures, and concludes that it is impossible for chemical recycling to be a viable solution in the short window of time left to solve the plastic problem, especially at the scale needed.
Lead Organization: Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA)
Author: Dr. Andrew Neil Rollinson and Dr. Jumoke Oladejo
Published on: June 2020
20 Years of Government Responses to the Global Plastic Pollution Problem
Plastic pollution in the ocean is a global problem that requires cooperation from a wide range of groups (e.g., governments, producers, consumers, researchers, civil society). However, by virtue of their core regulatory powers, governments have a critical role to play in helping to solve this problem. This study aims to synthesize the policy response of governments to the global plastic pollution problem, as a basis for more rigorous monitoring of progress (as called for in Resolution 4/6 of the 2019 United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) meeting) and to inform future public policies.
Lead Organization: Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
Author: Rachel Karasik, Tibor Vegh, Zoie Diana, Janet Bering, Juan Caldas, Amy Pickle, Daniel Rittschof External link, and John Virdin
Published on: May 2020
Building a bridge strategy for residual waste
A policy briefing which highlights the importance of defining a new strategy for managing residual waste that corresponds with the requirements of the age of climate emergency that we are living in.
Lead Organization: Zero Waste Europe
Author: Zero Waste Europe
Published on: June 2020
The Safety of Reuse During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This provides answers to the 7 most frequently asked questions regarding the safety of reusable products.
Lead Organization: UPSTREAM
Author: UPSTREAM
Published on: May 2020