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There isn’t just one way to enact sensible and effective zero waste policies in the U.S.: every state, city, and community has its own needs. Just Zero has designed model legislative toolkits that are interactive and customizable to help you build a bill or bills across a range of interest areas.
Report: Smoke and Mirrors–The Realities of Plastic Credits and Offsetting
Excerpt: As the world’s governments come together to negotiate a new international treaty to tackle plastic pollution across its lifecycle, it is vital that the reality of plastic offsetting is understood. A concept shrouded in smoke and mirrors should not be incentivised in a treaty designed to reduce plastic pollution.
Real vs. False Solutions to Plastic Pollution
False solutions do not adequately or effectively address plastic pollution and its serious impacts. Corporations that profit by dealing in petrochemicals and plastics seek to offer up false solutions to the plastic pollution crisis so that they can distract and confuse the media and the public, which prevents actual progress in reducing plastic production.
Indonesia Cracks Down on the Scourge of Imported Plastic Waste
For decades, western wealthier nations have exported their largely unrecyclable plastic waste around the world, especially to poorer nations in the Global South. Following China’s ban on these plastic waste imports in 2018, plastic waste exporters began targeting other developing countries. Facing serious health, social, and environmental impacts, Indonesia has tightened regulations on imported plastic…
