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GREEN GROUPS PUSH BACK ON INCINERATION PLANS IN AUSTRALIA, Calls on waste take back
MANILA, Philippines (August 15, 2019)—Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently announced that they will stop export of recyclable waste amid rising global plastic pollution concern and pushback from Asian countries who are at the receiving end of the waste...
read moreGreen groups call on Japan, G20 to show genuine leadership in tackling the plastic pollution crisis
MANILA, Philippines (June 28, 2019) — As the G20 summit opens in Osaka, Japan, a coalition of more than 800 environmental organizations worldwide is challenging the heads of state to show leadership in tackling the plastic pollution crisis by addressing...
read moreWe are hiring: Climate and Zero Waste Finance Associate
GAIA is a worldwide alliance of more than 800 organizations and individuals in over 90 countries working for justice and a world without waste. We see waste, plastics, and their resulting pollution as a symptom of a larger, profit-driven extractive economy, and we...
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Are Businesses Ready to Beat Plastic Pollution?
Millions of tonnes of plastic waste leaks into the world’s oceans every year. Though these are local, the problem of plastic production, waste generation, and plastic pollution is global. Global plastic production has increased steadily and has reached 320 million...
Plastics and health
We Can’t Burn Away Our Plastic Problem By Claire Arkin, Communications Coordinator When we hear about plastic pollution, it often takes the form of sea turtles with straws up their noses, seals with plastic nets around their necks, and seabirds with...
Waste-to-Energy has no place in Africa
For centuries, self-sufficient agricultural societies had been zero waste by nature. This sustainable cycle broke when artificial materials, such as plastic packaging, began conquering the market. As the world's fastest-urbanizing continent, Africa has...
