The COVID-19 crisis has had a massive impact on economies across the world, with several governments now seeking to design recovery programs. Ideally such programs should not only support recovery from recession but help achieve greener and more sustainable economies for the future. This report recommends that China’s green recovery package combine four key actions.
This report discusses efforts to transform a one-way plastics usage system into a closed-loop system, illustrated with challenges, solutions, and national regulations.
This report looks into the state of implementation of chemical recycling technologies in Europe as a potential solution to help curb plastic pollution and waste management.
This report reveals that chemical recycling is polluting, energy intensive, and has a track record of technical failures, and concludes that it is impossible for chemical recycling to be a viable solution in the short window of time left to solve the plastic problem, especially at the scale needed.
This technical note tests a novel data collection approach that relies on crowdsourcing data from multinational enterprises with operations across many geographies. This is eventually intended to allow effective response to water crises, providing empirical, comparable, global information on the state of public water management.