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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
Building Local Capacity for Zero-Waste in the Philippines: Q&A with Break Free From Plastic’s Former Asia-Pacific Coordinator Beau Baconguis
Large pollution can come in small packages. This is the case with the small plastic pouches, called sachets, that constitute a major source of the plastic waste crisis plaguing the Philippines, a country ranked third in the world for ocean plastic leakage. Filipino consumers throw away a staggering 163 million of these difficult-to-recycle plastic packets each day, which adds up to about 60 billion a year, enough to carpet 130,000 soccer fields.
For twenty years, Beau Baconguis has worked on toxic chemical pollution, plastic waste, and environmental and social justice issues in the Philippines. Beau got her start at the environmental conservation group, Haribon Foundation, where she worked to pass the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, groundbreaking national legislation that established a formal waste collection system in the Ph
Aiming for A World Where Everything Is Circular: Q&A with Indonesia Plastic Bag Diet Cofounder Tiza Mafira
“What bothers me is that people tend to look at these rivers and these polluted beaches and think ‘somebody needs to clean it up’ that’s just completely wrong. Because not only is it almost impossible and inefficient, but it’s really not the solution. The solution is prevention,” says Tiza Mafira in the film, Story of Plastic, as she takes a boat trip down the polluted Ci Liwung River that flows through Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta.
A recent Wageningen University study found that the Ci Liwung River is among the most polluted rivers in the world. The Dutch and Indonesian scientists estimate that 20,000 pieces of plastic waste flow from the river into the ocean per hour. The study also calculated that the annual plastic emissions from the Ci Liwung and the other 12 rivers in Jakarta total 2.1 million kilograms, equal to the weight of 1,000 Tesla Model S cars.