The Top 5 of March 2021
Jordan is facing a deepening, multi-faceted freshwater crisis and it’ll take aggressive action by the country and its international partners to gain a foothold on its water future. In this month’s top post, Steven M. Gorelick, Jim Yoon, Christian Klassert feature their recently published framework that assesses the key factors playing a role in exacerbating Jordan’s limited natural water availability and Jordan’s water security outlook.
The Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum continues the conversation around a different threat facing water security in this month’s second and third top posts plastic waste pollution. Dieuwertje Nelissen and Tauhid Pandji showcase Indonesia’s leadership in building a circular economy for reducing, reusing, and recycling plastic waste. Ruyi Li and Clare Auld-Brokish sat down with Break Free From Plastic’s former Asia-Pacific Coordinator Beau Baconguis to learn about her efforts to end plastic waste poll
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Image: Alterfalter/Adobe Stock The report from activist organization As You Sow argues that a global transition to a true circular economy model is the only path to salvation. The American Chemistry Council pleads for more nuance in the debate.
Investors be warned! The petrochemical industry will soon fall victim to “shrinking demand from the power and transportation sectors,” which should have investors asking themselves whether “relying on high-demand growth assumptions for plastics and other petroleum-based products will pay off.” That summary is the basis for a new report released by As You Sow, an activist organization whose efforts include eliminating fossil-based plastics and other petrochemicals due to their “significant climate footprint” and the waste challenges of single-use plastics. The report, “Plastics: The Last Straw for Big Oil? An Investor Brief on the Risks of Overinvestment in Petrochemicals,” details the future of the p
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Plastic pollution: Is the drinks industry doing enough to reduce single-use plastics?
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Many discarded plastic bottles are collected and recycled
Plastic pollution is a big problem. Although plastic is a really useful material that we use every day, what happens when we throw it away is having a huge impact on our environment.
It s thought more than five trillion pieces of plastic are in the world s oceans and it can take hundreds of years for it to break down.
Each year, 400 million tonnes of plastic is produced and 40% of that is single-use - plastic we ll only use once before it s thrown away.