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Study on Shah Alam City’s Single Use Plastic (SUP) Baseline and the City’s Current Policies and Practices on SUP Management
In Malaysia, the project CAP SEA, which stands for “Collaborative Actions on Single-Use Plastic Prevention in Southeast Asia” is financed by the German Federal…
Why are biobased and biodegradable plastic not part of the solution to reduce plastic waste?
Disposable, single-use packaging is convenient from the perspective of consumers. This holds true, for example, for takeaway food packaging. However, the high amounts of plastic consumed entail…
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Material choices for environment-friendly packaging design
This report is based on a literature review of several LCA studies conducted to analyze the environmental impact of different packaging materials and…
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Industrial Water Compendium - A Guide for Decision Makers in Industrial Wastewater Management in India and the MENA Region
Discharges of wastewater from industrial activities represent a global challenge, with developing countries and emerging economies especially vulnerable to their…
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Design-for-recycling (D4R) – State of play
In an ideal circular economy, no primary resources shall enter production processes, but only recycled material. As a precondition, products must be…
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Considerations for packaging classification
Globally, packaging waste has increasingly become an environmental problem. The problem is the large volume, the high resource intensity in production, the low…
Plastic waste for affordable building material – the silver bullet?
Could the use of plastic as a raw material for the production of construction material, especially for low-cost housing and shelters, give plastic waste a second life? Several companies and start-…
Results of the Waste Sorting Analysis
As part of the GIZ global project “Support of the Export Initiative for Green Technologies”, the project module in Jordan “Introduction of an Extended Producer Responsibility system for…
Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme for Packaging Waste in Egypt
The mission assigned to the contractor, Black Forest Solutions GmbH and Landbell AG, was to develop an EPR scheme for packaging waste in Egypt, following best practices of the European Union…