Many informal organizations 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.
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.
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.
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Practitioners, academics and researchers interested in community-based action to solve environmental problems caused by plastics pollution, as well as policy makers, and students of environmental science.
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. 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.
Britta Denise Hardesty (Edited By) 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.
Kathryn Willis (Edited By) Dr Kathryn Willis is a marine socio-ecologist at CSIRO based 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 (Edited By) 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.
Chris Wilcox (Edited By) 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.
