ICYMI - Here is a recording of a World Bank webinar on plastics in East Asia and the Pacific region last month. Learn how Cambodia is using drones to conduct trash monitoring of drainage canals to create a knowledge base for preparing plans and strategies to reduce plastic waste, how Palau is implementing behavior change campaigns, and more!

Can plastic recycling ever be economically viable and can recycling eliminate the plastic pollution problem? In a live Q&A session with Laurie Lane-Zucker of Impact Entrepreneur, Rob Kaplan, founder and CEO of Circulate Capital discuss the ways that impact investors are helping to fight the ocean plastic issue by funding plastics innovation and new supply chain solutions.

Dynamic resource management under the risk of regime shifts

Anna Lora-Wainwright's co authored paper looks interesting

Share a paper by our Partner UNU-FLORES director

Very interesting projects in India and Indonesia to capture and process 100K+ tons of plastic waste a year!

New WWF report on EPR (extended producer responsibility) for plastic packaging waste in the Philippines. Learn:
- How local governments are already regulating plastics and offering economic incentives to encourage private entities to develop and practice effective solid waste management (e.g. duty reduction on imported capital equipment, spare parts, and accessories);
- About a proposal for a custom EPR scheme for the Philippines;
- What other countries have done, including South Africa's voluntary EPR scheme, EU's EPR scope, the Netherlands' basis of EPR fee calculation, and Chile's formalisation of informal waste pickers; and
- About the Zero Waste to Nature: Ambition 2030 campaign recently launched by Philippine Alliance for Recycling and Materials Sustainability (PARMS).

Waste Summit Cambodia 2020 talks turning waste into cash -- For instance, by producing compost, households can potentially reduce their individual waste production by around 70 percent. However, further efforts will also be needed to address increasing plastic waste challenges.

A newly released report finds that the investment required in Indonesia between 2017 and 2040 for waste collection, sorting, recycling, recovery, and disposal is estimated to be $18.4 billion. It notes, however, that the public sector will not be able to cover these costs alone; it will be imperative that Indonesia takes action to attract private actors to invest in its waste management sector. For instance, Indonesia could build a market for recycled plastic through Extended Producer Responsibility fees. This system could help create rewards for companies who put easily recyclable and/or recycled packaging on the market. Fees would be lower as the proportion of recycled content increases, helping create competitiveness incentives.