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Legislation
| 2024 |
Cabo Verde
Law No. 43/X/2024 amending Law No. 22/X/2023 on the Legal Regime for the commercialization, importation, distribution and production of single-use plastic.

This Law establishes the amendment of articles 3, 4 and 26 of the Legal Regime for the Marketing, Import, Distribution and Production of Single-Use Plastic materials and objects produced with plastic materials. Amended articles deal with placing on the market, possession of plastic materials and objects for the purpose of sale; requirements for the list of usable plastic objects and standards...

Legislation
| 2024 |
Chad
Loi n° 23/CNT/2024 du 15 octobre 2024 portant protection de l’environnement

Aux termes du Titre I, l'environnement constitue en République du Tchad un patrimoine national faisant partie intégrante du patrimoine mondial. Sa conservation, sa protection et l'amélioration de ses ressources sont d'intérêt général et résultent d'une politique dont l'élaboration et l'application incombent à l'Etat. Tout Tchadien, tout habitant au Tchad a droit à un environnement sain dans les...

Legislation
| 2024 |
Mauritius
The Environment Act (No. 3 of 2024).

This Act, divided into eighteen Parts, and consisting of 151 sections, provides for a modern legislative framework that ensures better protection, management and conservation of the environment. The Act defines the following relevant terms: accredited laboratory, to provide environmental data and conduct analyses of environmental samples; Central Water Authority; circular economy; climate change...

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Impacts, Plastic waste, Waste, Circular economy, Pollutants, Hazardous waste, Integrated coastal zone management, Dumping, Open dumping
Case study | 2023
Dar es Salaam Metropolitan Development Project Phase 2
The objective of the Second Phase of the Dar Es Salaam Metropolitan Development Project for Tanzania is to improve climate resilient urban infrastructure and services and strengthen institutional capacity in the Dar es Salaam Region. The second component is the integrated solid waste management infrastructure and services. This component includes four subcomponents: waste disposal, waste transfer...
Country
United Republic of Tanzania
Report | 2023
Turning off the Tap: How the world can end plastic pollution and create a circular economy
The report proposes a systems change to address the causes of plastic pollution, starting by reducing problematic and unnecessary plastic use, redesigning the system, products and their packaging and combining these with a market transformation towards circularity in plastics. This can be achieved by accelerating three key shifts – reorient and diversify, reuse, and recycle,  – and actions to…
Keywords
Plastic pollution, Circular economy
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E-Learning course | 2023
Plastic Waste and the Basel Convention
There is no consolidated ‘one-stop-shop’ that Basel Convention Focal Points, Competent Authorities and other stakeholders can rely on to gain a comprehensive understanding of the steps needed and the tools and guidance available to ensure prevention and minimization, environmentally sound management and control of transboundary movement of plastic waste. This course aims to fill this gap.
Keywords
Plastic waste, Transboundary movement of plastic waste
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Legislation
| 2023 |
Cabo Verde
Law No. 22/X/2023 establishing the Legal Regime for the commercialization, importation, distribution and production of single-use plastic.

This Law, consisting of 27 articles and one Annex, establishes the Legal Regime for the Marketing, Import, Distribution and Production of Single-Use Plastic materials and objects produced with plastic materials. This Law applies to all sectors of economic and industrial activity and to all economic agents engaged in both wholesale and retail trade, formal or informal, and to all stages of...

Regulation
| 2023 |
Czechia
Decree on the implementation of certain provisions of the Act on limiting the impact of certain plastic products on the environment.

This Decree of the Ministry of Environment, which is composed of nine articles and six Annexes, establishes, in accordance with the legislation of the European Community: (a) scope and method of keeping records of selected plastic products placed on the market by the manufacturer and reporting data from these records; (b) the minimum scope and method of educational activities of the manufacturer...

Regulation
| 2023 |
Solomon Islands
Environment (Single Use Plastic Ban) Regulations 2023.

These Regulations prohibit the importation, manufacturing and distribution, supply and sales of single use plastic products, and impose penalty for the contravention to this prohibition. The provisions of this Regulations shall be enforced by the environment officers, customs officers, police officers, enforcement officers, authorised officers of the Solomon Islands Maritime Authority, and...