Environment

Companies have made public commitments to tackle plastic pollution. But do they? BFFP has examined the 'solutions' of the seven top plastic polluters and checked if they are real or false.

This publication presents the findings of a literature study on the lifecycle of plastics and its impacts on women and men, from production to litter.

Humans are affected differently by toxic chemicals and do not react in the same way. This paper advocates for stricter yet gender-responsive regulations.

How plastics harm human health and the environment and poison the circular economy.

Plastic is a predominant material used in many menstrual products. They contain toxic substances and their disposal is a major problem for the environment.

Sri Lanka is in the midst of arguably the worst economic crisis during its 74-year post-independence era, with its political and social stability strained to almost breaking point. One facet of this crisis is shown in the Sri Lankan agriculture sector, which is trying to recover from the self-inflicted wounds of a misguided policy of overnight conversion to exclusively organic agriculture (EOA). The author analyzes the background that led to such an ambitious, but unrealistic, venture and describes its wide-ranging repercussions, which have put the country’s food security and farmer livelihoods under serious threat.