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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...

Keywords
Impacts, Plastic waste, Waste, Circular economy, Pollutants, Hazardous waste, Integrated coastal zone management, Dumping, Open dumping
Regulation
| 2024 |
India
Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2024.

These Rules amend the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 (principal Rules). Section 3 of the principal Rules are amended by substituting the definitions for phrases such as Biodegradable plastics, Importer, manufacturer and producer. The definition of seller is inserted. Rule 4 is amended which prohibits manufacturers from selling plastic used as raw material to a producer or seller not...

Keywords
Plastic waste, Waste management, Plastic packaging, Plastics, Biodegradable plastics, Compostable plastics, Extended Producer Responsibility, Waste, Recycling, Certification, Single-use plastic products, Labelling, Plastic sheets
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...
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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,  …
Keywords
Plastic pollution, Circular economy
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Legislation
| 2023 |
Mauritius
The Waste Management and Resource Recovery Act, no. 3 of 2023.

This Act, consisting of 55 articles and divided into nine Parts, provides for a regulatory framework in order to ensure the environmentally safe and sound management of solid and hazardous wastes and a sustainable waste management system through the adoption of a circular economy approach focusing on waste reduction, reuse, material recovery and recycling. The Act concerns: commercial waste; waste...

Keywords
Waste, Waste management, Hazardous waste, Domestic waste, Recycling, Resource recovery, Waste prevention, Circular economy, Reuse, Waste minimization, Impacts, Waste management facilities
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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Report | 2022
Single-use supermarket food packaging and its alternatives: Recommendations from Life Cycle Assessments
This report compares the environmental impacts of single-use plastic packaging versus alternative options for supermarket food, intended for home consumption. The report is part of a series of meta-analyses of Life cycle assessment (LCA) studies that provides recommendations to policy makers on alternatives to commonly used single-use plastic products. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a…
Keywords
Life-cycle assessment
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Regulation
| 2022 |
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
The Plastic Packaging Tax (General) Regulations 2022

Part 2 of the Finance Act 2021 introduced the Plastic Packaging Tax and set out its framework and key definitions. These Regulations set out detailed administrative requirements for the Plastic Packaging Tax. Definitions are given to establish when a plastic packaging component is considered ‘finished,’ and therefore chargeable to the tax. It also details record keeping and weighing requirements...

Keywords
Plastic packaging, Recyclable packaging, Reusable packaging, Single-use plastic products, Taxes
Legislation
| 2022 |
Philippines
Extended Producer Responsibility Act of 2022 (Republic Act No. 11898).

The Republic Act No. 11898, which amends Republic Act No. 9003, focuses on extended producer responsibility for plastic packaging waste in the Philippines. The Act aims to enhance waste management practices by holding producers accountable for the entire life cycle of their products, promoting waste reduction, recovery, and recycling. It establishes a national framework for extended producer...

Keywords
Extended Producer Responsibility, Waste management, Recycling, Waste, Plastic packaging, Solid waste, Plastics, Life cycle, Waste minimization, Resource recovery, Labelling, Recyclability, Reuse, Circular economy