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The beginning of the end for plastics pollution?

This is a monumental year for multilateralism to prevail in the fight against plastic pollution, as the United Nations has committed to deliver a

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Nigeria’s plastic ban: why it’s good and how it can work

Two weeks into January 2024, Nigerian authorities took steps to curb environmental degradation caused by plastic pollution in the country. The Federal Ministry of Environment

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Unsung heroes: Four things policymakers can do to empower informal waste workers

On the edge of city life around the world, informal waste workers (often pickers and scavengers) are working under hazardous and deplorable conditions, making

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Microplastics in Water and Wastewater from IWA Publishing

Microplastics and plastic pollution are growing issues of concern for the health of our planet. These tiny pollutants threaten our water, wastewater, and ultimately

Water

Our ocean is coughing up plastic!

As part of understanding more about plastic pollution and how severe the situation is in Thailand, I investigated the effects of increased plastic consumption

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Bangkok To Addis To Zurich

12:15pm in Zurich, 18:15pm in Bangkok, the interview begins. Dr. Benno Böer represents UNESCO from Thailand, and me Felix Matschie interviewing him for the

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Project SWAP: Working for Green Causes

Research has shown that by 2050, more plastics will inhabit our oceans than fish. Efforts to counteract this notion have lost momentum due to

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Waste Wise Cities Clean Up!

Globally, uncollected and unmanaged municipal solid waste directly contributes to green house gases emission (GHG) and climate change; global marine plastic pollution especially in

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PAX reports a new momentum on plastic-management-policies

UNESCO, together with Government nominated plastic-waste-management specialists from Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, supported by representatives of several UN agencies, Embassies,

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Strategic solutions to marine plastic abatement

The Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), supported by the Government of Japan, is about to start a one year university course on ‘Marine Plastic

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The beginning of the end for plastics pollution?

Nigeria’s plastic ban: why it’s good and how it can work

Unsung heroes: Four things policymakers can do to empower informal waste workers

Microplastics in Water and Wastewater from IWA Publishing

Our ocean is coughing up plastic!

Bangkok To Addis To Zurich

Project SWAP: Working for Green Causes

Waste Wise Cities Clean Up!

PAX reports a new momentum on plastic-management-policies

Strategic solutions to marine plastic abatement

Sentinels of Environment

Sentinels of Environment

Sentinels of Environment

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