Waste

Well-managed pool systems for reusable packaging are a key instrument to make efficient and effective reuse systems work. This paper intends to provide guidance and policy proposals to take into account when creating EU legislation on reuse.

Promoting the reuse of packaging is crucial for resource conservation, the fight against plastic pollution, and, even more importantly, is an essential part of a climate-friendly new Circular Economy Action Plan.

The study shows that under the right conditions including a supporting policy framework, reuse can thrive in the EU, and more importantly, it can reduce the environmental impacts of packaging and save companies as well as consumers money.

This report focuses on analysing the results of life cycle assessments that compare the environmental impacts of single-use to reusable packaging alternatives.

This study looks beyond the environmental benefits of reuse and explores the potential socio-economic benefits, with a focus on the grocery retail and HoReCa (Hotel, Restaurant, Cafés) sectors.

Plastic pollution is causing a social emergency, as well as an environmental one. The briefing looks at social impacts on different sectors and the vicious circle plastic pollution poses. It also identifies six key areas that need to be addressed by the treaty as part of the solution.

This part of the Plastic Treaty Essential Elements series explains why a good reporting and monitoring framework is so important for the new international legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution, and what it should look like.

For the first time in Germany, major civil society actors have come together in an alliance to resolve the plastics crisis and have formulated 15 demands for the German government to act on.

This report reviews international commitments for reducing plastic and waste-sector GHG emissions. It evaluates the NDCs made by signatory countries to the Paris Agreement on their goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the waste sector.

A global plastic treaty needs to include an intersectional approach because persons subjected to multiple forms of discrimination or marginalization need to be supported with targeted measures and included in the solution.