All Social Impact articles – Page 2

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    Our guide to creating a circular economy for packaging in Africa

    2025-01-02T11:46:00Z

    Plastic production in Africa has surged from 15 million tonnes to 350+ million tonnes in the past 50 years – most of which ends up in landfills and dumpsites. In this report, we take a look at how tackling packaging waste in African countries could help to improve living and environmental standards.

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    No agreement reached over a Global Plastics Treaty at INC-5

    2024-12-02T09:01:00Z

    After a week of negotiations, INC-5 has come to a close with no agreement reached over a Global Plastics Treaty, and another session is now expected to take place in 2025 – an outcome many blame on ‘low-ambition countries’ stalling progress for their own ends.

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    How will the UN’s legally binding rules on plastic pollution be implemented?

    2024-10-02T10:39:00Z

    The UN’s global plastic treaty negotiations are set to end in November, at which point new international legally binding rules on plastic pollution will be revealed. To learn more about how this might be implemented in practice, we caught up with Justin Wood, Vice President and Head of Europe, Middle East & Africa at the Alliance to End Plastic Waste.