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Confronting the Plastic and Waste Crises in Southeast Asia: Systemic Drivers, Impacts, and Policy Imperatives
Civil society groups in Southeast Asia are urging ASEAN leaders to tackle the plastic waste crisis and reduce fossil fuel dependence driving climate change across the region.
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Beyond the Label: Debunking the Biodegradable Plastic Myth
Greenpeace Thailand’s report “Beyond the Label: Debunking the Biodegradable Plastic Myth” critically examines the real-world performance of biodegradable and bio-based plastic packaging widely marketed as eco-friendly.
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Bioplastics Are Not the Solution to the Plastic Pollution Crisis, Says Greenpeace
Greenpeace Thailand’s latest report “Beyond the Label: Debunking the Biodegradable Plastic Myth”
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Activists send plastic waste back to Nestle, call out company for greenwashing
Nestle continues to figure in waste and brand audits as one of the worst polluters. The company also ranks 6th among global fast moving consumer goods companies in a recent Break Free From Plastic report on false solutions, with Nestle leading the way in terms of questionable “plastic neutrality” agreements with other companies.
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Health experts push back against plastic industry to declare safety of reusables during COVID-19
The oil and plastics industry wants you to think that you and your family are safer when your food, drinks and other products are wrapped in plastic. But health experts around the world agree that reusables can be used safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Greenpeace report uncovers how top brands fool consumers with ‘false solutions’ to plastic pollution
The report, titled Throwing Away the Future: How Companies Still Have It Wrong on Plastic Pollution "Solutions,’”[1] shows how multinational companies, such as Nestlé, Unilever, PepsiCo, and Procter & Gamble, continue to harm the environment by using paper and crops-based bioplastics, which cause deforestation and threaten food security. Moreover, chemical recycling offers false hopes and lock in demand…
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Green groups to Nestlé: “Own up, pay up, clean up your act!”
Manila, Philippines — A day before Nestlé’s Annual General Meeting, over a hundred activists belonging to the global #breakfreefromplastic movement trooped to Nestlé’s Philippine headquarters today to demand accountability for…
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The Recycling Myth
In many places a waste management system exists that claims to dispose, incinerate or recycle collected plastic waste. In reality, most of the plastic waste generated in high-income countries is transported to low- and middle- income countries, where the plastic waste is imported to be recycled or further processed.