The second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution delivers fresh hope for the establishment of a Global Plastics Treaty in 2024. While ultimately, we think there is a need for strong restrictions on single-use plastics, we still need to adopt solutions to the current situation. And, in this context, businesses with a […]
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2021-2030 was declared the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, where top of the list of desirable outcomes is ‘a clean ocean where sources of pollution are identified and reduced or removed’. Despite many years of the media spotlight on plastic pollution in the ocean, the flow of solid waste shows few […]
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BVRio has today, as part of a group of voluntary standard setters under the PREVENT Waste Alliance and with support from the ValuCred consortium, released a joint statement welcoming the resolution ‘End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument’ adopted at the fifth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5) in Nairobi.
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Project date/s: October 2012 to October 2013 Funder/s: Oak Foundation, ClimateWorks Foundation, UKFCDO Collaborator/s: National Association of Catadores Initiative type: Tool The problem In 2010, Brazilian legislation introduced a form of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requiring producers or importers in selected sectors to ensure the products they sold were collected and disposed of in […]
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A new project from Italian company, Ogyre, is funding the collection of tons of plastic from the sea and mangroves of the Guranabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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The guidelines on best practices for credit systems related to the circular economy are now available in Portuguese and Spanish, as well as English.
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The project EntreAmigos in Mexico has celebrated handing out their first Circular Plastic Credits to waste pickers,
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New guidelines on best practices for credit systems related to the circular economy are now available in the Circular Action Hub.
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