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Sharing technological updates from the world of the recycling industry!

Cyclion Energy is a company offering innovative technology for plastics recycling. It has developed a groundbreaking method that can convert plastics into oil at rather lower temperatures than other waste-to-energy technologies. This technology represents a significant advancement in the recycling industry, as it can efficiently process a wide range of plastics, including those that are typically challenging to recycle, but also avoid unintentional generation of gases. The process involves heating plastics to the temperature of 240-310 degrees Celsius in the absence of oxygen, resulting in the transformation of plastics into valuable oil products.

The company is working on its inaugural commercial project in the Philippines, a country known for its alarming contribution to oceanic plastic waste. The Philippines, with a population of 114 million spread across 7641 islands, is responsible for over one-third of the world's oceanic plastic waste, as reported by Our World in Data. It is planned to have this project operational by 2025 and use it as a model for future endeavors, potentially including projects in Australia.

Looking forward to further updates and innovative projects in other island states across the world!

Photo: Credits to Buchok A.
Manila Bay Beach, July 2023.

Amazing news from the Pacific Ocean!

The Ocean Cleanup, an organization dedicated to removing plastic waste from the world's oceans, has achieved a significant milestone by recovering a record-breaking 55 tons of plastic waste from the Pacific Ocean. The cleanup efforts in strong partnership with Kia targeted the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a massive accumulation of plastic debris in the ocean. This enormous garbage patch represents the planet's most extensive collection of drifting refuse, covering an estimated area that matches three times the expanse of France.

It is great to also find out that this plastic is subject to recycling and part of it shall be reused by Kia in its future car models.

This achievement in removing plastic waste from the Pacific Ocean not only benefits the global environment but also holds great promise for the well-being and sustainability of islands in the Pacific by preserving their ecosystems, economies, and overall quality of life.

The Solomon Islands ban single-use plastic!

On September the 1st a regulation to ban single-use plastics in the Solomon Islands has come into force.

This ban prohibits the importation, manufacturing, distribution, sale and general use of plastic shopping bags, plastic straws, plastic disposable cups, plates, and cutlery’s, polystyrene foam plates and cups, and water bottles that are less than 1.5 Liters.

This is ban is in line with ISLANDS effort to avoid and manage plastic pollution in the Pacific region.

Well done!

THE NEW DEAL
Are Nation States and the International Community not surely missing out something in the quest for innovative and sustainable solutions to the world socio-economic and environmental crisis? are we sure consumers are not a powerful force and best positioned to bring about the desired and sustainable solutions and changes based on the exorbitant powers they posses? Every single human being is a consumer and engages into purchases and consumption of goods and services on a daily basis. The purchasing and consumption decisions of consumers have outstanding and lasting impacts on the health of the environment. Their sound and enviromnmentally conscious purchasing and consumption decisions can resolve a substantial part of the world environment crisis including plastic pollution, climate change and shaping sustainable production patterns and vice versa. This can be achieve by redirecting the struggle and integrating consumers in the picture and starting with robust and vigorous trainings, education and sensitization programs on sustainable consumption, consumers rights and responsibilities.
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#fightforourclimate
#consumerprotection
#Responsibleconsumption

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Founder/promoter
Consumer Welfare League (CWL)
Bamenda-Cameroon

I am really excited to come across this group, and I advocate for eradication of single use plastic. Based on the throw away culture that has been with us from the medieval times, plastic pollution has been a leading cause of environment degradation and affecting various ecosystems. I believe by joining this group, I will learn more and share with like minded individuals.

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A Blueprint to a Plastic Waste Free Island

Searious Business and the IUCN have released a complete DIY guide to reducing plastic waste on any island anywhere in the world – a blueprint to zero plastic waste.

Organisations, citizens, or politicians can use this free resource to find upstream and downstream solutions that unlock blue & circular business opportunities in the local community and inform future policy and investment in a circular plastic economy.

This Blueprint guides you on a journey to a Plastic Waste Free Island, detailing how to:

· Collect baseline data about waste generation
· Develop a financing and action plan
· Increase policy effectiveness for waste reduction
· Unlock sector-level business opportunities
· Create new value chains and job opportunities
· Attract and inform investment, e.g., reuse and recycling

The Blueprint is available for free download:
https://www.seariousbusiness.com/pwfi-blueprint

If you have questions about its content or need support with on-the-ground implementation, please get in contact:
[email protected]

Do you know how much #plastic waste humans around the world produce each year?

▶ 4 tonnes (= 1 hippopotamus)
▶ 400 tonnes (= 5 space shuttles)
▶ 4 million tonnes (= 40,000 blue whales)
▶ 400 million tonnes (= 4 million blue whales)

To combat plastic pollution everyone must act and young people are essential in this effort.

Join Joyce Te'o from Samoa to #TurnTheTide and #BeatPlasticPollution download the Tide Turners app here: https://www.gefislands.org/TideTurners