Search Results
Industry needs to step up its game and design plastic out of our systems
by admin | July 15, 2018
Informal waste workers of Mumbai sorting through and separating the recyclables. Pic Credit: Pratibha Sharma Why the Maharashtra plastic ban requires a closer look… By: Pratibha Sharma, India Regional Coordinator, GAIA Asia Pacific Maharashtra’s plastic ban can be seen as a step closer to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pledge to end the use of single-use […]
CONTINUE READING
Press Release, News, Plastic Policies
Plastic pollution: countries show their true colours on the International Plastic Bag Free Day
by Matt Franklin | July 3, 2018
For immediate release: Brussels, 3/07/18 Press Contacts: Ariadna Rodrigo, Product Policy Campaigner, Zero Waste Europe: ariadna@zerowasteeurope.eu +32 489 677 686 Justine Maillot, European Affairs Officer, Surfrider Foundation Europe: jmaillot@surfrider.eu +32 487 169 453 On #plasticbagfreeday, we call on Member States to put an end to plastic bag pollution, in line with the EU #plasticsstrategy & the […]
CONTINUE READING
Why Women From Asia Are Confronting U.S. Fracking: Oil Extraction Equals Plastic Production
by admin | June 26, 2018
Volunteers collect garbage along the coast of Freedom Island during a ‘Break free from Plastic’ activity in Paranaque City, the Philippines. Photo by Xinhua/ROUELLE UMALI/Getty Images by Isabelle Morrison. Article originally posted here. Plastic manufacturers are not responsible for the disposal of their products, so the burden is placed on people in the Philippines. Heaps of plastic waste […]
CONTINUE READING
McDonald’s to phase out plastic straws in UK and Ireland, trial alternatives globally
by Matt Franklin | June 18, 2018
This article was originally posted by Greenpeace USA and is available here. by Perry Wheeler June 15, 2018 Washington, DC – McDonald’s announced that it will phase out plastic straws in the UK and Ireland by 2019, and that it will trial alternatives to plastic straws in select restaurants in the U.S., France, Sweden, Norway […]
CONTINUE READING
News, Plastic Policies, Press Release
Global Leaders Enable Dangerous Waste Burning Practices in G7 Plastics Charter
by Dawn Marie Elisse Mundo | June 18, 2018
June 13, 2018 – The G7 Ocean Plastics Charter, signed by five nations, has already been criticized as “tepid,” and inadequate to the scale of the plastic pollution problem. Despite advocates calling for governments to set clear, binding targets for reduction of virgin plastics, the G7 charter embraces weak “end of pipe” waste management approaches. Advocates around […]
CONTINUE READING