Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is one of the utmost challenges for Cambodia's
city and district centers. The unsound management of MSW has detrimentally affected the …

Marine litter is recognised as imposing a range of costs on marine economies and
environments as we target UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to 2030. Prevention …

Environmental contamination by plastics has been receiving considerable attention from
scientists, policy makers and the public, and waste plastic trade has become a major social …

Abstract Microplastics (MPs,< 5 mm) are widespread in coastal ecosystems and pose a
growing global concern; however, their presence in deep-sea environments remains …

The Basel Plastic Waste Amendments reflect growing global concern about the illegal
plastic waste trade as waste colonialism. Comprehensive analyses of plastic waste material …

This paper has been developed by the Institute for Sustainable Futures and the Climate
Change Cluster (C3) at the University of Technology Sydney. UTS's Climate Change Cluster …

Plastic waste is an internationally traded commodity, where importing countries recycle
plastic waste into usable materials. There are concerns, however, that the plastic waste …

For two decades until 2017, more than half of the world's traded plastic waste was exported
to China. In that year, however, China announced a complete ban on imports of post …

Motivation: In the face of contemporary environmental and economic challenges, a transition
to more sustainable global plastics economy is crucial. Countries are implementing circular …

This research examines just transition pathways and decent work outcomes for waste
workers amid the circular economy and modernization shifts in the Philippines' waste sector …