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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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Greenpeace recommendations for Thailand’s plastic management roadmap to mitigate the impacts of plastic pollution on wildlife and iconic species
Thailand's alarming plastic pollution has been linked to the recent deaths of animals and endangered species-- most recently a wild deer and a baby dugong.
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Greenpeace Statement on the ASEAN Framework of Action on Marine Debris
The Bangkok Declaration and the ASEAN Framework of Action on Marine Debris is a good example of how regional action can be achieved to address a common challenge. However, the Framework falls short of addressing the plastic pollution problem at root, by giving more focus to waste management rather than the need to reduce the…
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Why waste trade should be on the ASEAN summit agenda
Leaders from the 10 member nations that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are in Bangkok this week for another round of high level meetings to talk…
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ASEAN leaders welcomed by “mountain of trash” and calls to ban plastic and e-waste imports
Activists holding banners saying ‘No Space for Waste’ unveiled the spectacle during a protest by environmental groups, including Greenpeace, and community representatives from across Thailand outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand - which has been chosen as the ASEAN-National Secretariat - a major focal point during this week’s talks.
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Community Rights Advocates Challenge to ASEAN Leaders: End the Toxic Trade in Plastics and E-Waste
As the 34th ASEAN Summit gets underway, chaired by Thailand under the theme of “Advancing Partnership for Sustainability,” community rights advocates from Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand are uniting to challenge ASEAN leaders to establish bold and visionary regional policies to immediately ban the flow of foreign plastic waste and e-waste entering the region, and regulate…
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Policy Brief: Southeast Asia’s struggle against the plastic waste trade
As leaders from the 10 countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) prepare to meet in Bangkok for the 34th ASEAN Summit this June, it is perhaps surprising to note that the issue of plastic waste imports does not currently feature on the three-day agenda. Indeed, the last year has seen…
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Groups say goodbye to Canada waste, urge PH government to ban all waste imports immediately
The Philippines bid goodbye to the Canadian waste, six years after it was discovered in Philippine ports, environmental groups are calling on the Philippine government to ban all waste imports in the Philippines and ratify the Basel Ban Amendment.
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Malaysia’s government returns imported plastic waste to global north
Greenpeace statement on In response to Malaysia’s decision to send imported plastic waste back to the countries that produced it, such as the UK and Canada.
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New research exposes a crisis in the global trade of “recyclable” plastics
Hong Kong / Berkeley, USA — Water contamination, crop death, illness, and the open burning of plastic waste have all flooded into Southeast Asia along with the world’s “recycled” plastics,…
