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A Dialogue on Extended Producer Responsibility & Training on Human Rights Based Approach in the Plastic Value Chain

UN Environment Programme (UNEP), in close collaboration with AIT Extension, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), will organize the first regional dialogue series which compose of two sub-activities, namely (1) a Training Session on Human Rights Based Approach (HRBA) in the Plastic Value Chain and (2) a Regional Dialogue on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). Both events are scheduled on Tuesday, 23rd August 2022.

SEA circular project aims to reduce plastic pollution and its impact through a multi-sectoral approach, working with actors across the value chain – from policy makers to communities. The project strives to promote market-based solutions and enable policies to end plastic pollution at source – ensuring impact that is sustainable and scalable.

One of the components of the SEA circular are series of regional dialogues. The regional dialogues are meant to act as a platform to exchange experience, enable collaboration and empower stakeholders to take actions. Each program shall combine a dialogue session and the launch of a pertinent knowledge product from the SEA circular project.

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UN Resident Coordinator in Thailand Visits Chonburi Province Dumpsite

“Realising Bio-Circular-Green Economy targets will require Waste Wise Cities tool as well as community-led solutions. We cannot depend on dumpsites and landfills forever. Up to 800 tons of mostly household waste end up at Laem Chabang waste management site every day, which was just 500 tons per day two years back. Unless we change the way, we consume or manage waste, our planet will be swamped!

The United Nations Thailand has renewed support to Laem Chabang Municipality, including step-by-step guide to assess waste flows and leakage hotspots for better waste management planning. Next is also to study amount of emissions arising from dumpsites/landfills”, says Ms. Gita Sabharwal, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Thailand during her visit to the Laem Chabang Waste Management Site.

On May 18, 2022, UN-Habitat and UN country team organized a meeting with the Chonburi Deputy Governor Ms. Titilak and the provincial team to share the findings of the assessment on waste flows and leakage hotspot using Waste Wise Cities tool, which was conducted…

Case Study: Starboard

EXPERIENCES IN PLASTIC OFFSETTING

This case study demonstrates market-based solutions towards “less plastic wasted”, exemplary solutions for transformational changes in the way the plastic is managed in the supply chain. Circular economy approaches, including business incentives for plastic reduction and recycling, are used, leading to increase in plastic re-use and recycle and to the reduction in single use plastic packaging.

More than 9 million tons of plastic ends up in the oceans, wreaking havoc to marine life and at least USD 8 Billion in damage to marine ecosystems.

Scientists tells us that the ocean is expected to contain more plastics than fish (by weight) by 2050. The founders of Starboard, being surfers have seen firsthand the impact of plastic pollution in our ocean and how it is increasing at an alarming rate.

In many developing nations, large populations and rapid urbanization overwhelm the local waste management infrastructure. Low waste collection rates and high littering trends produce substantial pollution both in the surrounding land and marine environments.

Fishing nets abandoned in the sea – experts estimate that roughly 640,000 tons are currently in the oceans, accounting for 10 per cent of all plastic waste in the sea (FAO-UNEP report). Starboard has incorporated the use of resins from recycled fish nets as fins for their boards.

People and organizations are becoming more aware about the importance of recycling plastic waste. Companies are embarking on innovations and technology, exploring alternatives to virgin plastic. Some are even incorporating recycling and collection into business models in a way that incentivizes the informal sector, provides income and livelihood, and encourages other businesses to apply circular approaches.

A. Background

Starboard, is a world leading watersports company founded by Olympic windsurfer Svein Rasmussen in 1994. Dedicated to innovation and quality ‘even as it pushes the limits of ocean athletic possibilities’, Starboard’s vision is to change how businesses and the world see plastic and to reshape the plastic economy into a safer and greener system, so that watersport enthusiasts can paddle clean waters and sail plastic-free seas’.

B. The Challenge

As a company that produces boards and related equipment for paddling, surfing, windsurfing and kiteboarding/kitesurfing which are exported to over 70 countries, Starboard is aware of its role in the use of plastic for its products. One of the means sought to address this contribution and become part of the solution is through the company’s determination to:

calculate its plastic footprint through their Plastic Disclosure Project

set up an internal plastic offset program

become Carbon Past Positive, or balancing not only the current carbon footprint, but that of entire 25 years that the business was in existence

C. The Interventions

In 2017, Starboard started foot printing their carbon and plastic use. Using the Plastic Disclosure Project methodology, Starboard understood and quantified the areas where recycled content, increased material recovery, or the use of eco-innovation changes could be made in their product line, and where its plastic footprint could be reduced within its operations.

Starboard went through the process of understanding its complete plastic use and waste footprint and was able to benchmark the amount for its boards, accessories, apparel, packaging, and operations for both 2017 and 2018. The Parley AIR Concept, a hierarchy of “Avoid, Intercept, and Redesign”, has been and still is being applied to review the items of plastic used within the company. This helps Starboard recognize where single-use plastic can be eliminated and replaced by other materials such as recycled plastic, bio-resins or natural materials including end grain balsa wood and pine technology.

For the carbon footprint, the Starboard environmental team calculates a Life Cycle Analysis for all boards each year. On average, the manufacturing of a board creates 100 kilograms of carbon dioxide. To offset this, Starboard works with Worldview International Foundation to plant mangrove trees in the Thor Heyerdahl Climate Park in Myanmar. Each mangrove tree is capable of absorbing 1,000 kilograms of CO2 within the first 20 years of its life, this means that the emissions of a Starboard board is more than matched, making it carbon positive. Starboard covers its carbon footprint for all areas across the company, including the travel of employees and team riders, electricity use of the various Starboard offices, the creation of all accessories and paper packaging and also from shipping. To verify all calculations, Starboard worked with Carbon Footprint UK and calculates that within the next 20 years, all of Starboards emissions since 1994 will have been absorbed.

For every board sold, Starboard collects part of the profit and sets it aside as a ‘plastic tax’ for each board produced. The company uses this tax to compensate the Plastic Offset Program clean up team for collecting 1.1 kilograms of plastic trash for each board sold. 1.1 kilograms is the equivalent to the amount of plastic trash entering the ocean, per person, per year. Starboard allocates part of its profit to generate action for the planet.

Starboard initiated the world’s first Plastic Offset Program (POP) at the end of 2017 to reduce the company’s plastic footprint. This is done by assigning an internal price/tax on each plastic material, which is then multiplied by its usage in each of the Starboard products. The dollar value assigned to each of the plastic materials is based on: (1) duration of use (lifespan), (2) toxicity (harm to the environment), and (3) creation of waste (recycled/bio content). By accounting for these factors with an offset price, the Plastic Offset Program acknowledges the dynamic nature of the problems caused by plastics and further clarifies – and quantifies – the investment necessary to mitigate its impact through the Plastic Offset Program.

This tax is internalized in the pricing of its products and is used to fund the POP programme. Starboard also pays for the following ‘Plastic Net Positive’ activities, such as:

Advocating for legislation that taxes the use of plastic materials and bans several single-use plastics in Thailand. This means companies will be required to internalize the social cost of carbon and plastic waste into their production costs. This year, Starboard will be going through another footprint exercise for its new product lines. Each board, each accessory as well as each area in the company that utilizes plastic, will be dissected.

Research and Development of materials which can replace toxic thermoplastics like PVC, Avoid-Intercept-Redesign philosophy holds products to achieve high performance and lower environmental impact.

In many cases, the hotels found that local suppliers appreciated the reduced operating cost to their business by reduced packaging, and that what was initially resistance to change quickly pivoted to wholehearted adoption, as with container take-back programs. One food supplier, Ninh Van Bay in Vietnam, is now avoiding 20,000 delivery bags per year by using paper with reusable baskets.

funding support for NGOs to reduce plastic pollution impacts in waterways both in Bangkok and world-wide. Starboard works with organizations to collect and upcycle discarded fishing nets, which are fully recycled into material for use in its surfboard components like fins, fin boxes, Stand Up Paddleboard (SUP) pumps and other structural parts in surfboards (Akulon Repurposed). Starboard is now doing this in India and will also work with NGOs based in Thailand (EJF) to recycle the collected fishing nets into resins which will be used in the production of its board fins.

D. Impacts

The POP program encourages Starboard to rethink and reinvent how plastic is used and further reduce the plastic consumption. Eliminating plastics from production or switching to less harmful varieties (and thus with lower offset prices) will lead to a reduced investment in the Plastic Offset Program, thereby incentivizing companies to reengineer and reduce their plastic consumption habits.

For each board produced, Starboard enables the collection of 1.1 kilograms of beach/ocean plastic trash, the equivalent amount of plastic trash entering the ocean, per person, per year.

By accounting for the plastic lifespan, harm to the environment, and recycled/bio content in its products with an offset price, the Plastic Offset Program acknowledges the dynamic nature of the problems caused by plastics and further clarifies – and quantifies – the investment necessary to mitigate the impact of plastic used. Such a pricing scheme also encourages companies like Starboard to rethink and reinvent how they use plastic in an effort to reduce the external cost of the plastics they use.

E. Results and Outcomes

Over the past 12 months (TBC), Starboard has already replaced over 21.2 per cent of virgin plastic with recycled plastic and reduced overall plastic consumption by 6.5 per cent by using more biomaterials.

It has also increased the amount of plastic collected from 43,000 kilograms in 2018 to 50,000 kilograms in 2019.

F. Challenges

Engagement of the people – Trash volumes in the beaches differ, depending on the season and the time of year. Retaining manpower can also be a challenge. Nevertheless, continuous efforts are made to educate the pickers. Training and retraining them to understand why they’re doing it, and the opportunities for income are always stressed.

G. Moving Forward

Starboard plans to work using the POP scheme with more communities in Thailand. Each year, the team identifies locations with large volumes of plastic trash needing removal and works with the local authorities to be granted permission to do so.

The company will also be launching a new clothing brand in 2021, which is heavily environment focused. The weight of the product will be matched with an equivalent weight of plastic to be removed from the environment. This cost will be reflected in the pricing of the garments and will be set aside from the sales proceeds for use in the collection efforts. This provides an opportunity for consumers to support a cause that reduces the amount of plastic pollution entering our oceans.

Quotes:

We’re outside in nature all the time. When we’re out in the water, we see what’s happening. And for us to be producing and contributing to this economy that uses plastic, we decided to show what we could be doing.

We want companies to join us. We already have the teams that go out every day (like adding to the fund for paying collectors)

People are choosing Starboard because of their work with the mangroves and the Plastic Offset Program

We want to change the social aspect, how people tend to view waste. There’s a disconnection of the waste that goes into the environment and human health. There’s no care. We need to look after what’s around us in order for us to have a better life.

Links to further information:

https://blue.star-board.com/news/starboard-launches-worlds-first-plastic-offset-program/

https://blue.star-board.com/news/plastic-offset-program-19-20-target-reached-what-have-we-learnt/

INFLUENCING THE VALUE CHAINS TO REDUCE PLASTIC USE

Case Study: Six Senses

INFLUENCING THE VALUE CHAINS TO REDUCE PLASTIC USE

This case study demonstrates market-based solutions towards “less plastic wasted” highlighting transformational changes in the way plastic is managed in the value chain. Applying circular economy approaches, including business incentives for plastic reduction and recycling has led to an increase in plastic re-use and recycling rate and reduction in single use plastic packaging.

A. Background

Six Senses Resorts was founded in 1995, with the vision of shaking up the luxury resort experience. Pioneering barefoot luxury, Six Senses works with both global and local sensitivities by engaging people, cultures and ecosystems in their locations to provide quality remote island experiences.

From growing its own organic produce to learning how to close the loop on waste to coral restoration and reforestation projects, the organization has been a leader in sustainability. The business case for Six Senses’ work on plastic begins with its positioning as a brand and its commitment to its guests and communities. With this, Six Senses hotels decided at the onset not to have single-use plastic shampoo and amenity bottles in their rooms since Day 1. ‘Why have plastic at all?’ has been a question it continuously challenges itself. In 2004, all Six Senses hotels were equipped with water bottling systems to avoid using plastic water bottles, and in 2016 the organization achieved plastic straw elimination in all of its resorts.

B. The Strategy

Defined baseline and metrics. Six Senses started by defining the plastic challenge for its resorts and identify questions and opportunities. Inventories are created for all plastic items, and over the years, efforts made to avoid or eliminate these inventoried plastic items. From the installation of water bottling systems, the elimination of straws, or minimizing the use of cling wrap by timing arrivals of food production quantities, such programs are usually piloted and tested in a few resorts first. This is followed by clear assessments vs the baseline, evaluations, including reports highlighting lessons learned are generated and shared. The pilots help define “plastic”, set priorities and methodologies, and establish the metrics and criteria for success (i.e., for “compostable”). These are then rolled out groupwide.

In 2018, an inventory was completed of all plastic items existing in every Six Senses hotel, resort, spa, and corporate office – from clingwrap in the kitchens to air-conditioning units in the guest rooms. These items are categorized as single-use, multiple-use and long-term. Today, this inventory continues to inform Six Senses’ implementation strategy.

The strategy does not focus on the weight or volume of the plastic waste, although such are already tracked for all types of waste as part of the Resort’s larger sustainability management program. The key metric for Plastic Free 2022 is the number of plastic items eliminated or avoided per year. By conducting an annual evaluation, this metric is naturally skewed towards single use plastics. By eliminating or avoiding the plastic items altogether, negative impacts associated with the entire plastic product lifecycle are reduced, and not only with waste disposal.

As Six Senses’ strategy continues to unfold, metrics on avoidance and elimination of plastic items are revisited, and every win along the way celebrated within the organization.

Training the Organization: Sustainability leadership workshops and training series take place regularly, designed to engage corporate team leaders, senior management, unit heads and hosts around the issues of plastic, how this relates to the organization and how it relates to families and individuals. Training Managers and Sustainability Managers at all Hotels have been delivering training covering topics as, ‘What is Plastic?’, ‘Microplastics, Wildlife, Human Health, and Solutions’, with the goal of 100% participation.

Work with the Community: Many hotel units have aligned with local community organizations to raise awareness and empowerment toward plastic free lifestyles. Each property has an Earth Lab, where guests interested in plastic-free lifestyles can learn through activities such as making beeswax wraps which can be used to replace cling films.

Focus on Supplier engagement: Six Senses focuses on waste avoidance rather than waste disposal, and this is executed with careful purchasing strategies and product selection. Packaging forms the bulk of plastic waste and thus defines the critical role of suppliers. Six Senses continuously works with them to address this. In 2019, the Purchasing Teams of all Six Senses hotel sent written notification to their suppliers, informing them of the organization’s goal to be plastic free. This letter solicited ideas and alternative products along with a pledge that suppliers were encouraged to sign to. There was great support received from some unexpected stakeholders in Six Senses’ supply chains, and alternative suppliers were sought to replace organizations that refused to participate.

Six Senses values its supply chain relationships and continues to seek innovative new products and suppliers aligned with their plastic goals. The organization continues to build in this area, seeking alternatives to plastic and planning additional training for its suppliers and Purchasing teams.

C. Challenges

Lack of alternatives to plastic. Some items like plastic-free air conditioners or cling film simply do not exist yet. This is not lost on the organization even as it nevertheless sets its vision on the innovations and developments happening in its chains, and the demand driven by Six Senses’ guests, the public, and local governments around the world.

Too much packaging is the default. Packaging is a huge hurdle representing a colossal and mostly unseen burden of single use plastic waste. Kitchen health and safety standards may need to adapt to allow a return to a world without single use plastic. Plastic has become so ubiquitous to everyday life that we tend to not even notice it.

COVID-19: The current situation where big plastic companies are seizing the opportunity to lobby for a repeal of government bans on single use plastic, is a big setback. Concern about whether the use of plastic gloves and wrappers reduces the risk of infection, or if natural fabrics pose less risk vs. plastic surfaces at spreading the virus, should also be addressed through reliable information from authorized health organizations to assuage fears.

D. Impacts

Based on the latest recount as of July 2019, Six Senses’ 18 hotels successfully eliminated or avoided 5.15 million pieces of plastic per year. Those figures include over 1.69 million water bottles, 1.12 million coffee capsules, 26,000 toothbrushes, 460,000 packaging items, 52,000 single-use bags, and over 320,000 plastic straws.

The hotels’ water bottling installations can expect a two-year payback period in locations with non-potable tap water, realized by the cost savings from not purchasing plastic bottled water.

Six Senses hotels benefit financially by not paying for handling and disposal of 5.15 million waste items per year, plus by strengthened relationships with suppliers.

Six Senses Laamu in Maldives for example is working with Air Seafood to avoid 8,500 Styrofoam boxes per year by shipping food in Biobiene wood fiber containers (FSC certified). In addition to saving on cost of waste, the hotel now has an excellent source of carbon to create healthy compost which eliminates the need to purchase chemical fertilizers, while supporting vegetable production from the hotel gardens.

In many cases, the hotels found that local suppliers appreciated the reduced operating cost to their business by reduced packaging, and that what was initially resistance to change quickly pivoted to wholehearted adoption, as with container take-back programs. One food supplier, Ninh Van Bay in Vietnam, is now avoiding 20,000 delivery bags per year by using paper with reusable baskets.

E. Lessons Learned

For any hotel unsure of where to start on their journey to eliminate plastics, water filtration is an excellent place to start. It saves operating cost, eliminates plastic bottles, while cutting down carbon emissions associated with transporting water across distances.

Packaging represents an immense volume of single use plastic and is difficult to tackle directly. Six Senses did not fully anticipate the complexity of working with multiple businesses within and throughout its supply chains, which is required to effect changes in packaging. Shorter, local supply chains are less complex and have other benefits for local economies. Longer, global supply chains may require industry level engagement or government regulation to solve.

An unexpected lesson learned is related to the metrics used by Six Senses. The plan was originally for an inventory of all plastic items used across the group to form a baseline, which then be periodically revised. The number of items eliminated or avoided is then calculated against that baseline. What they found though, was the inventory of plastic items kept growing, not shrinking, despite the acknowledged significant reductions of certain items. The reason? The teams got better at seeing and reporting plastic items. As a result of such engagement efforts, Six Senses Hosts have gained greater awareness of the plastic around us. To date, the metrics used now simply track the number of items eliminated and avoided and use the inventory data to inform strategy.

F. Moving Forward

Six Senses took a deep dive into the latest science to form their revised strategy on plastic: Plastic Free 2022. The organization set the extremely ambitious goal of eliminating not only single use plastic, but all plastic involved in its operations. Starting with single-use and disposable plastic as top priority, the aim is to carefully reduce exposure to this petrochemical material for guests and communities, being mindful of its harmful impacts to wellness and wildlife. This means transitioning to natural compostable materials in some cases, and to high quality reusable materials in other cases.

Management knows this is difficult, if not impossible to achieve. It nevertheless sees the goal as something to strive for, as a vision that not only supports and sustains the environment where the hotels are situated and the livelihoods that depend on it, but enhance the experience for guests and visitors of staying in a Six Senses Resort.

Quotes:

We’re taking a “Leap of faith” with the goal, and we’re going to push it as far as we can. It is an unorthodox position, and we don’t really know yet how we’re going to get there, but we will.

It’s important to note that world did exist prior to the 1940s and hotels and most commercial kitchens can operate safely without plastic.

THE BUSINESS CASE FOR A UN TREATY ON PLASTIC POLLUTION

A new report from WWF, Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Boston Consulting Group finds that a new international treaty on plastic pollution would benefit both the environment and businesses, and accelerate global efforts to tackle plastic pollution.

Policy Brief: PLASTIC POLLUTION THE BUSINESS CASE FOR A UN TREATY

Webinar: Let’s talk about masks

Sustainable Seas Trust and AMWN in partnership with United Nations Environment Programme, Department of Environment, Forestry, and Fisheries (DEFF), Packaging SA, Plastics SA, SA Waste Pickers Association, and WESSA are hosting the fourth webinar in our series on COVID-19 Waste Awareness.

Date: 05 November 2020

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

Lee Barker
Director of Waystd

“Change is the only constant” Heraclitus. The world we know it has changes, but one thing should stay constant – our shift towards recycling education, global sustainability and ensuring a better future for generations to come.

Join Waystd in their webinar on how they turned COVID-19 into a positive outcome, creating jobs and doing their part to clean up our planet

For more information, please visit https://sst.org.za/events/

Tools

Alternative Material Tool (MY, PH, SG, TH)

This tool is developed for management and procurement teams of organisations looking at single-use packaging, such as in the HORECA sector. Users can refer to this tool when making strategic decisions about sustainability, such as what kind of packaging to use, and whether to eliminate the use of plastics.

Guidelines for Providing Product Sustainability Information

This tool’s objective is to offer an opportunity for organizations to self-assess and improve the way they are communicating with consumers about product sustainability (through marketing claims, labels, voluntary standards, product declarations, etc.). This tool also serves as a benchmarking tool to organizations that are currently developing new product sustainability information. Ultimately, with this self-assessment tool, the Consumer Information Programme aims to encourage organizations to align their product sustainability communications with the Guidelines, creating an international community of good practice.

Plastic Pollution Calculator

Developed by the University of Leeds as part of the International Solid Waste Association Task Force on Marine Litter, the ISWA Plastic Pollution Calculator takes the approach that plastic pollution is caused by unsound waste management practices and infrastructure. By thoroughly analysing the solid waste management system, and combining this with local socioeconomic, geographical and meteorological factors, the Calculator is able to quantify the specifics of plastic pollution sources and pathways at an unrivalled resolution.

INTERPOL Strategic Analysis Report: Emerging criminal trends in the global plastic waste market since January 2018

A new INTERPOL strategic report on global plastic waste management has found an alarming increase in illegal plastic pollution trade across the world since 2018.

The report, entitled INTERPOL’s strategical analysis on emerging criminal trends in the global plastic waste market since January 2018, indicates that there has been a considerable increase over the past two years in illegal waste shipments, primarily rerouted to South-East Asia via multiple transit countries to camouflage the origin of the waste shipment.

Third Asia-Pacific Day for the Ocean

On 21 May 2020, ESCAP member States adopted a resolution on “Strengthening cooperation to promote the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific,” underscoring the importance of the Ocean for the region, and requesting the secretariat “to continue to strengthen current partnerships and to develop new partnerships, where appropriate, for the conservation and sustainable use of the oceans, seas and marine resources, including through participatory, multi-stakeholder dialogue platforms.”

In line with this mandate, the secretariat will host its Third Asia-Pacific Day for the Ocean to continue to support member States, and key stakeholders, through systematic and inclusive dialogue on priority areas and challenges in our region.

This event will provide a platform to identify elements for a regional “Decade Program”, currently in preparation by the secretariat, within the scope of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030), and building on virtual consultations that will be organized in anticipation for the Asia-Pacific Day for the Ocean. The outcomes of the Asia-Pacific Day for the Ocean will also provide a regional perspective to inform the 2020 UN Ocean Conference.

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Moving Towards Circular Economy for Plastic Waste Management

The SWITCH-Asia Regional Policy Advocacy Component (RPAC) funded by European Union, implemented by UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, in partnership with Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) is pleased to cordially invite you to attend our upcoming Regional Policy Dialogue on Circular Economy for Plastic Waste Management which will be organized on Tuesday 20 October 2020, 14:00 hrs as a hybrid event, broadcast live from AIT.