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In 2020, Gwinnett Recycles set forth on a citizen science project to collect and analyze the trash found in the environment in their community. Over nine months, they brought citizens together for litter cleanups in each of Gwinnett County, Georgia’s 16 cities and logged details about the plastic waste they collected.

by Greenpeace Philippines | March 2021

The Vietnam waste assessment and brand audit report 2018-2020 highlights and recommendations for initiating Zero Waste in Vietnam.

In the wine industry, single-use glass is heavily used for packaging. On the one hand, glass has the greatest environmental impacts compared to other packaging materials (i.e. PET, aluminium, and beverage carton). On the other hand, glass is 100% reusable and 100% recyclable at the end of its life cycle, and is an inert material, which makes it more suitable as a food contact material. The reWINE project proves that a circular and more sustainable way of consuming wine is possible.

A factsheet on Plastics, Waste-to-Energy Incineration, and Zero Waste

This pioneering human biomonitoring study demonstrated that plastic particles are bioavailable for uptake into the human bloodstream. An understanding of the exposure of these substances in humans and the associated hazard of such exposure is needed to determine whether or not plastic particle exposure is a public health risk.

This topic page on the website of the German civil society alliance Exit Plastik provides an overview of the topic of reusable packaging. It contains information and links to further materials and campaigns by Exit Plastik Alliance and its members.

Plastic waste in the sea has reached dramatic proportions. Every packaging and every piece of plastic that ends up in the environment can last for centuries.

In this 23 September 2021 photo, Felix Weber, a research associate at the Institute of Environmental and Process Engineering at RhineMain University of Applied Sciences, sits in front of a picture of a 3D microscope with plastic particles. The specific dangers posed by microplastics or the even smaller nanoplastics is still the subject of research. But it is already clear that particularly small particles can penetrate cells and trigger reactions there. These nanoparticles are found in cosmetics, for example.

As public concern grows about mountains of plastic trash, the plastics industry is promoting technologies that it misleadingly calls “chemical recycling” (also known as advanced recycling, molecular recycling, and chemical conversion) and touts as a solution to the plastic crisis. But it is a false solution.