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GAIA Asia Pacific launches Business Unusual: Enterprises paving the way to Zero Waste
While the demand for sustainable, packaging-free stores keeps growing, corporations remain slow to respond. They are still focused on greenwashing--producing supposedly eco-friendlier packaging for their products which are mere PR stunts in disguise. ...
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Preventing Plastic Waste Leakage to Rivers by Strengthening Decentralized Waste Management System at Village Level in Gresik Municipality Indonesia
by Daru Setyorini, Project Coordinator Zero Waste Cities, ECOTON Gresik is a coastal city in East Java, Indonesia, located downstream between Brantas River and Bengawan Solo River. These two big rivers were included in the Top 20 most polluting rivers in...
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International Zero Waste Cities Conference 2021
Zero Waste challenges the “take-make-waste” mode, focusing on collective responsibility and waste prevention. To date, more than 25 cities across the region have established Zero Waste models, showcasing innovations in source separation, organics...
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GAIA Asia Pacific launches Business Unusual: Enterprises paving the way to Zero Waste
While the demand for sustainable, packaging-free stores keeps growing, corporations remain slow to respond. They are still focused on greenwashing--producing supposedly eco-friendlier packaging for their products which are mere PR stunts in disguise. ...
Understanding the Environmental Impacts of Chemical Recycling – Ten concerns with existing life cycle assessments
This joint paper presents key findings from a review of some of the most commonly cited chemical recycling and recovery LCAs, which reveal major flaws and weaknesses regarding scientific rigour, data quality, calculation methods, and interpretations of the...
Policy Briefing: Transposing the Basel Convention plastic waste amendments
See this policy briefing to learn how countries can avoid loopholes in plastic trade regulatory frameworks and ensure that new rules under the Basel Convention plastic waste amendments have real impact.
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