The How2Recycle scheme was created to provide consistent and transparent on-package recycling information to consumers in North America through clear, consistent and concise labelling. Source: United Nations Environment Programme (2023). Turning off the Tap: How the world can end plastic pollution and create a circular economy. Topic Sheet: Design Guidelines for Circularity. Nairobi.

The federal government is a significant purchaser in Canada. As such, its activities impact the national economy and can influence both the price and the availability of goods and services, including construction services, in the marketplace. Through the increased promotion of environmental sustainability, and by integrating environmental considerations in its procurement process, the federal...

This Agreement approves the National Policy for the comprehensive management of waste and solid waste, which establishes the obligation to promote economic and technological development that prevents environmental pollution and maintains ecological balance. NB repealed by Política Nacional para la Gestión Integral de Residuos y Desechos Sólidos. on 01 Jan 2015

The Ministry of Environment and Forests notifies Matheran and surrounding region as an Eco-sensitive Zone and imposes restrictions on industries, operations, processes and other developmental activities in the region which have detrimental effect on the environment. A Zonal Master Plan for the Eco-sensitive Zone shall be prepared by the State Government and shall provide for restoration of denuded...

The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP) is the Pacific Regional Centre for the Joint Implementation of the Basel and Waigani Conventions. The objective of the Waigani Convention, adopted in 2001, is to reduce and eliminate transboundary movements of hazardous and radioactive wastes, minimize the production of hazardous and toxic wastes in the Pacific region, and...

The Small and Medium Enterprises Equity Investment scheme is a voluntary initiative of the Bankers’ Committee approved at its 246th Meeting held on 21st December, 1999. The initiative was in response to the Federal Government’s concerns and policy measures for the promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as vehicles for rapid industrialisation, sustainable economic development, poverty...

Governments and financing institutions would design and operationalize landing schemes accessible to waste pickers and other more vulnerable actors in the plastics value chain (e.g. small businesses). Different from micro-financing, for instance, micro-credit lines would guarantee low interest rates, and have minimal bureaucratic hurdles for users (e.g. simple application process and minimal...

Since 1975, Mumbai-based Stree Mukti Sanghatana has helped thousands of women improve their lives and escape poverty. Its concern for a gender-just world has also coincided with a concern for the environment.

The Regional Action Plan for Marine Litter (RAPMaLi) for the Wider Caribbean Region was originally developed in 2007 to promote problem solving at the national and local levels, recognizing that unique regional characteristics should inform innovative solutions to the problem of marine litter. The RAPMaLi action plan has since been implemented through selected pilot projects in Guyana, Barbados...

Administered by UNEP with the Secretariat hosted in Thailand, the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA) is a regional intergovernmental mechanism bringing together Cambodia, People’s Republic of China, Indonesia, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Viet Nam in development and protection of the marine environment and coastal areas of East Asian Seas...