El colonialismo de la basura no se detiene en América Latina: informes investigativos comercio transfronterizo de plásticos 2022

En 2021 GAIA presentó gracias al trabajo de sus miembros en cuatro países, una investigación crítica con información inédita sobre las importaciones de residuos plásticos que estaban ingresando a países de América Latina. En esta oportunidad, compartiremos los principales hallazgos de la segunda ronda de reportes investigativos realizados por dichos miembros de GAIA en cuatro países de la región: México, Ecuador, Chile y Argentina.

Además, se incluyen mapas que grafican las importaciones y exportaciones de residuos plásticos, siendo este último un elemento nuevo dentro de las investigaciones debido al hallazgo de cifras de exportación dentro de América Latina e incluso hacia Estados Unidos, el mayor exportador de plásticos a nuestro continente.

Five illustrated booklets – Plastics Crisis: Challenges, Advances and Relationship with Wastepickers.

Contents:

  • Plastic Life Cycle and the Globalized Socio-Environmental Crisis.
  • The Plastic Production.
  • Toxic Additives in Plastic.
  • False Solutions and Businesses that Aim to End Pollution.
  • The global plastic treaty to Control its Complete Life Cycle.

Cartilhas ilustradas sobre a crise do plástico.

Conteúdo:

  • O ciclo de vida do plástico e a crise socioambiental globalizada.
  • A produção do plástico.
  • Aditivos tóxicos do plástico.
  • As falsas soluções e os negócios que pretendem acabar com a poluição.
  • O tratado global de plásticos para controlar seu ciclo de vida completo.

Cartillas ilustradas sobre la crisis de los plásticos.

Contenidos:

  • El ciclo de la vida del plástico y la crisis socioambiental globalizada.
  • La producción del plástico.
  • Los aditivos tóxicos del plástico.
  • Falsas soluciones.
  • El Tratado global de plásticos.

Once faced with waste management challenges exacerbated by tourism, two communes in Hoi An, Vietnam — Cam Thanh and Cham Islands (Tan Hiep Commune) — have become the faces of Zero Waste through the collaboration of stakeholders from the government, community organizations, farmers’ associations, businesses, and tourism associations.

La responsabilidad extendida del productor (REP) consiste en políticas que buscan mejorar el desempeño medioambiental y social de los productos responsabilizando a los productores y a los dueños de las marcas por el ciclo de vida completo de sus productos.

Waste pickers from South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Morocco and Zambia have demonstrated the common need for official recognition from national and municipal governments, better working conditions, PPE, improved payment for their recovered materials and collection and processing service, and an end to social stigmatisation.

The experience of organising shows that these needs are achievable through building representative organisations that will ensure that their voices are heard in negotiations with governments and demonstrate their value to society.

This requires waste pickers to work collaboratively and embed the principles of democracy, equality and environmental justice in their organised structures. Furthermore, municipalities and national governments need to recognise the value that waste pickers play in diverting waste from the landfills, encouraging recycling where materials re-enter the economy and addressing poverty by providing an income for individuals that have been excluded from the formal economy.

Fuelling Failure is the first report to highlight the dangers fossil fuels and plastic production pose to every single UN Sustainable Development Goal. The 17 SDGs, whose 169 targets aim to “end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all by 2030,” touch on a diverse range of issues and challenges such as biodiversity, work, health, inequality and food. The goals apply to all countries, rich and poor, with the aim of ensuring that “no one will be left behind.” In contrast, plastic reduction and zero waste strategies would help us meet the world’s SDG’s, fast.

The paper was produced by researchers at the University of Sussex on behalf of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative and key civil society partners with expertise across the SDGs: 350.org, ActionAid, REN21, Stand.earth, CAN South Asia, UNRISD, Food and Water, Rapid Transition Alliance, Leave It In the Ground Initiative, GAIA, CAN International, Center for Biological Diversity, Stamp Out Poverty, MOCICC, Power Shift Africa, WECAN and Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development.

Island communities face more challenges when confronted with the problems posed by single-use plastics. As a response to these challenges, GAIA Island communities face more challenges when confronted with the problems posed by single-use plastics. As a response to these challenges, GAIA Asia Pacific is launching this latest publication, Community Voices: Impacts of Single-Use Plastic Regulations on Philippine Coastal Communities. This highlights different experiences of waste management implementors from Siquijor, San Carlos, and Dumaguete City in implementing their single-use plastic regulations.

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