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The International Zero Waste Seminar brought together representatives from 26 municipalities and 45 organizations from more than 15 countries in Chile to discuss the potential of organic waste to reduce methane emissions and the transition toward zero-waste models

Break Free From Plastic LAC

Civil society organizations raise concerns on “informal” meetings that have been taking place among heads of government delegations for negotiating the Global Plastics Treaty. Conducted behind closed doors and without access for observer organizations, the meetings limit the transparency of the process and prevent informed participation by civil society.

Break Free From Plastic

Closed-door meetings among governments are excluding observer organizations from substantive discussions on the future treaty, warn 26 organizations in the region.

Break Free From Plastic LAC

In El Salvador, plastic is everywhere: in shopping, homes, and farmlands, but also on the streets and in storm drains, where it accumulates when the rains come. In the face of a “use-and-dispose” culture, the Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technology (CESTA in Spaish)—the country’s first environmental organization—has spent more than two decades promoting a different approach to waste management and, for the past ten years, has been linking that effort to the global Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) movement.

Break Free From Plastic LAC

The Environmental & Occupational Health Society (EOHS) studies offer some of the first community-level evidence on the potential public health and environmental footprint of Malaysia's plastic and paper waste recycling sector.

Comms Hub and Devayani Khare