We need other solutions to the plastic waste crisis. Solutions that involve reduce, reuse, refill and repair here in Asia. And those types of solutions…need to be included in the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations. The Global Plastics Treaty agreement is not a mechanism to control plastic waste. It is a roadmap for the world to control the life cycle of plastics that have come to dominate our natural environment and impact our health in ways we still don’t fully understand.
So that’s what we are going to talk about in this episode. Luckily, I had the opportunity to speak with two incredibly knowledgeable people about this. Marian Ledesma, Zero Waste Campaigner with Greenpeace Southeast Asia based in Manila, who will be attending the INC-2 meetings in Paris next week. Greenpeace Southeast Asia is a Break Free From Plastic member organization, and Marian has a deep knowledge of the plastic crisis here in Asia, as well as how to focus policies so that single use plastic…with all of its health and environmental impacts…can be eliminated from our lives. My other guest Marian Ledesma, Zero Waste Campaigner with Greenpeace Southeast Asia based in Manila, works with startups in the reuse and refill space in Indonesia. She has a hands-on view of what types of programs and regulations work in megacities in Asia…so that single use plastic consumption can be dramatically reduced…if not totally eliminated!
To wrap up we talk about what you listeners can do to support their efforts at the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations….
Production credits:
Host: Marcy Trent Long
Producer: Carol Mang
Contributing Editor: Jill Baxter
Intro/outro music: Alex Mauboussin
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Resources:
We have partnered with Break Free From Plastic (BFFP), headquartered in Asia, to produce this series. BFFP has numerous resources on their website about the Global Plastics Treaty and the Reuse | Refill | Repair initiative:
https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/plastics-treaty/
https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/2023/04/28/youth-summit-2023-global-plastics-treaty/
Video Credits:
UN Agrees to Roadmap for global plastic pollution treaty, The World
The Truth About Plastic Recycling..It’s Complicated, Undecided with Matt Ferrell
S3E3: 1986: Domestic Aquaculture in China
S3E2: 1986: History of China and Overfishing
S3E1: 1986: China, Fish, and Oceans
S2E4: PLASTICITY: As Good As New
S2E3: PLASTICITY: Define Recycling?
S2E2: PLASTICITY: It’s All About Infrastructure
S2E1: PLASTICITY: Ocean Plastics Charter
S1E5: EIGHT MILLION: Is burning waste China’s quick solution to ocean plastics?
S1E4: EIGHT MILLION: Plastic Recycling 101 - Closing the Loop
S1E3: EIGHT MILLION: Sorting out China’s plastic waste
S1E2: EIGHT MILLION: Beautiful China
S1E1: EIGHT MILLION: China and the Global Plastic Challenge
EIGHT MILLION: Prologue
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