Ending Plastic Waste

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Community Actions Around the World

Edited by: Britta Denise Hardesty, Kathryn Willis, Justine Barrett, Chris Wilcox

eBook - July 2023 - eRetailers

Stories, advice and information to inspire communities to get involved in ending plastic waste.

Many informal organisations around the world are making a positive impact on the environment and their communities by turning waste into a resource, increasing the social capacity of their community and reducing the amount of pollution in their environment. + Full description

Ending Plastic Waste: Community Actions Around the World presents a collection of stories, advice and information from experts in the fields of waste management, plastic pollution and environmental finance to give a broad outlook on how 19 programs from 15 different countries are protecting our planet. By sharing these journeys, the authors hope to encourage others to take a community approach to ending plastic waste.

Perfect for decision-makers working in environmental and marine fields, industry stakeholders and citizen scientist groups, this book provides guidance on how to successfully implement a new program, what resources are needed and the lessons learned by the people behind these programs in overcoming barriers.

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Sales in Australia and New Zealand only. Elsewhere, this title is available through CABI Books [external link].

Reviews

From the Foreword:
“Armed with knowledge and the stories told in this book, readers will feel inspired and empowered to create their own organisation and join us in our collective effort towards solving the global plastics pollution challenges.”
Natalie Harms, Programme Officer on Marine Litter, Secretariat of the Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (COBSEA), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Details

Paperback | July 2023 | $ 59.99
ISBN: 9781486312290 | 200 pages | 245 x 170 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Colour illustrations, Colour photographs

ePDF | July 2023
ISBN: 9781486312306
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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ePUB | July 2023
ISBN: 9781486312313
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Features

Shares success stories from around the world of programs actively reducing plastic waste in the environment.
Expert contributors provide overviews of global waste management, plastic pollution and environmental finance.
Demonstrates how communities are turning plastic waste into a resource and increasing social capacity at the same time.

Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
About this book

1. Introduction
Britta Denise Hardesty, CSIRO, Australia, and Justine Barrett, CSIRO, Australia

2. Plastic waste inputs and leakage: scale, drivers and solutions
Dr Winnie Lau, The Pew Charitable Trusts, USA

3. Waste pickers: keeping after-use plastics circular, but at high personal cost
Costas Velis, University of Leeds, UK

4. Community programs to reduce plastic waste
All Women Recycling
Bureo Inc.
BVRio
EcoFaxina (Instituto EcoFaxina)
GreenHub
Life Out of Plastic (L.O.O.P.)
Mamma’s Laef Vanuatu
Ocean Sole
PET Recycling Company NPC (PETCO)
Plastic Bank
The Plastics Circle
Plastic Collective
Plastic Free July®
PRISM Bangladesh Foundation
Saahas
Sevanatha Urban Resource Centre
Solid Waste Collection and Handling (SWaCH) Pune Cooperative
The Skilled Women Initiative
TierraMar: SeaNet Indonesia

5. A step-by-step guide to knowing your waste
James Baker, The Asian Development Bank, Philippines

6. Finding seed funding for your project: the blue finance world
Azra Yaqub Vawda, independent consultant, Pakistan

7. Designing a scalable program
Trish Hyde and Murray Hyde, founders of The Plastics Circle, Australia

8. Closing thoughts
Chris Wilcox, Minderoo Foundation, Australia, and Kathryn Willis, CSIRO, Australia

Index

Authors

Dr Britta Denise Hardesty is a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO based in Tasmania, Australia. Her globally recognised work focuses on plastic pollution, and marine monitoring and surveillance to reduce illegal fishing.

Dr Kathryn Willis is a marine socio-ecologist at CSIRO in Tasmania, Australia. She is particularly interested in how communities can establish best-practice conservation management strategies in marine systems to maximise their environmental and social impact.

Justine Barrett works in the marine debris group at CSIRO in Tasmania, Australia. Her research is aimed at reducing plastic pollution from reaching our waterways and oceans.

Dr Chris Wilcox is a senior principal research scientist at CSIRO in Tasmania, Australia. His research focuses on ecological impacts of marine debris and development tools for tackling illegal fishing. He is currently on secondment, working with the Minderoo Foundation, as the head of their Sustainable Fisheries Program.