Turning plastic trash into recycled treasure | World Economic Forum
2021年8月25日 · Just 9% of plastic waste created is recycled; Recycling rates could be 100% with improved waste management, an optimized recycling system and clever product design; To build a trash-to-treasure or waste-to-product mindset, the financial and sustainability benefits must be better understood by plastic producers.
8 inspiring innovations that are helping to fight plastic pollution
2021年12月13日 · Dealing with plastic pollution demands creativity – from re-designing packaging and delivery models to implementing new recycling technologies that help address waste production and management. To discover innovators around the world, the Global Plastic Action Partnership collaborated with UpLink to launch GPIN, aiming to build a community of ...
Top 25 recycling facts and statistics for 2022 - The World …
2022年6月22日 · In many cases, plastic recycling is more costly and energy-intensive than creating plastic from raw materials, contributing to the low recycling rates. Misinformation is rampant, and plastic is being recycled at an even lower rate than previously estimated. The recycling industry has a long way to go when it comes to plastic waste.
5 innovative ways we are tackling plastic waste - The World …
2023年12月8日 · While plastic has become a vital part of modern life, plastic pollution is a threat to the planet and our health. These innovations are helping to recycle more plastic, reduce microplastics in water and cut emissions. Building a circular economy to reduce plastic waste is a key focus of the World Economic Forum’s Global Plastic Action ...
India adopts collaborative solutions to tackle plastic waste | World ...
2023年8月2日 · In India, plastic waste generation is estimated at 9.4 million mt annually with only 50% of it being collected and processed, via recycling. This is primarily by a hybrid arrangement of formal and informal networks, while the rest lies unaccounted for and is often dumped in landfills and water streams, or incinerated which leads to ecological ...
Empowering local communities to solve global plastic waste
2022年1月17日 · They allow corporations to fund high-impact, community clean-up projects particularly focused on non-recyclable plastic wastes that are currently not part of the recycling system. Many experts agree that we must move toward circularity – an economic approach in which materials and resources are re-used to their utmost extent .
Tech helps Egypt's informal recyclers build circular economy
2021年6月14日 · With a track record of recycling 80% of everything they collect, Cairo’s army of more 50,000 waste processors, 150,000 collectors, sorters, traders and truck drivers, certainly have the skills to handle the city’s plastic waste mountain.
We know plastic pollution is bad - The World Economic Forum
2022年1月19日 · Much of the plastic that doesn’t make it to the recycling plant ends up in our rivers and ocean. Not only is this a danger to the animals and plants whose habitats have become aquatic garbage patches, but it also poses a threat to the climate, as plastic releases greenhouse gases as it slowly breaks down.
EPR and a global plastics treaty – what do the experts say?
2024年11月18日 · The Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty unites over 200 companies with a shared vision and a joint call for the treaty to include an obligation at the national level to advance targets and systems for collection, reuse and recycling based on common definitions and key principles for EPR regulations.
Why is black plastic packaging so hard to recycle? - The World …
2019年12月16日 · Greenpeace says changing recycling systems to detect black plastic would take “a lot of time and money.” It argues a simpler solution would be for the UK government to ban the use of “problem plastics,” including black plastic, PVC and expanded polystyrene.