The draft Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Amendment Rules 2011 specified that use of multilayered plastic packaging in small pouches and sachets would be allowed for exports, although their continued use will continue to be tightly regulated. In addition, the use of plastic in "bags that...
The California Plastic Waste Reduction Regulations Initiative has qualified for the ballot in California as an initiated state statute on Nov. 8. The ballot initiative would require the California Department of Resources, Recycling, and Recovery (CalRecycle), in consultation with other agencies, to ad...
He told reporters during a press briefing that the extended producer regulations will also regulate non-returnable glass and plastic bottles, cartons, beverage cans, waste oils, pesticide or chemical containers, used tyres, electrical and electronic equipment. According to him, the regulation requires ...
insufficient infrastructure development for recycling and recovery, and above all, lack of awareness of the rules and regulations are the key factors behind this massive pile of plastic waste. The severity
Work is also being done into new,bio-based packagingthat can perform the same role as conventional plastic in terms of protecting food and preventingfood waste—and could also be biodegradable. But a lot of questions remain as to whether bio-based plastics are actually sustainable in the long ...
other material to protect the freshness of a food product that will be shipped around the world. We need to further develop technologies that make plastics more biodegradable, such as products based on algae. But we also need stricter regulations to discourage plastic packaging production and use....
The main addressed subject areas of the plastic waste theme in our study refer to closed-loop recycling of polymers (Sherwood, 2020), the interaction between plastic value chain stakeholders and regulations towards implementing a CE (Foschi and Bonoli, 2019), defining a new plastics economy in ...
Playing a leading role in eliminating plastic waste on land and sea About the Initiative Mission Commitments & Achievements Governance Key Projects Plastic Packaging Design: CGF Golden Design Rules Extended Producer Responsibility Reuse/Refill Flexible Plastics ...
Tonga 2016 Environment Management (Litter and Waste Control) Regulations Tuvalu 2019 Waste Management (Prohibition on the Importation of Single-Use Plastic) Vanuatu 2018 Ban South America Chile 2016 National legislation on EPR that contemplates packaging as a priority product, considering a variety of ...
CGF Plastic Waste Coalition of Action: 40 member companies committed to playing a leading role in eliminating plastic waste on land and sea.