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Report outlines major global efforts, investments and commitments to end

plastic waste in the environment and contributing to a circular economy

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste today released its 2020 Progress Report,

detailing the organisation's focus on addressing its vision and mission.

The report outlines the commitment to project acceleration across its four

strategic pillars of waste management and recycling infrastructure, innovation,

education and engagement, and clean up. The Alliance has activated 14 projects

across 14 cities in six countries in South East Asia, India and Africa – all at

the frontline of the plastic waste challenge. The report also features 55

member-led projects worth US$400 million towards building solutions to end

plastic waste in the environment.

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"We have to act with urgency as lack of action will result in millions of tons

of plastic waste continuing to leak into the ocean if we do nothing today. The

progress the Alliance is making in just 18 months is the start of a long road

ahead. But we can shorten the road significantly when we act together across

industry, governments, civil society and development agencies. The problem is

solvable and our strategy is to apply a holistic approach backed by deep

technical knowledge and resources from the full plastic value chain," said

Jacob Duer, President and CEO, Alliance to End Plastic Waste.

Duer added, "Our ambition, over five years, is to divert millions of tons of

plastic waste in more than 100 at-risk cities across the globe, improve

livelihoods for millions and contribute to a circular economy. The Alliance is

demonstrating how successful plastic waste management solutions can unlock

capital to scale and accelerate the pace."

Examples of Alliance and member project milestones outlined in the 2020

Progress Report across the four strategy pillars:

-Project STOP (Stop Ocean Plastics) in Jembrana, Northwest Bali Indonesia, has

created the regency's first-ever solid waste management service with a full

recycling system that will create new and permanent jobs. The Alliance and

Project STOP will create a system that will aim to collect 20,000 tons of waste

per year. This involves a radical transformation at every societal level –

citizen, government and community.

-Zero Waste Plastic Cities – a combined vision of the Alliance and Grameen

Creative Labs co-founded by Nobel Peace-Laureate Professor Mohammed Yunus,

that goes beyond plastic waste leaking into the environment but also develop

sustainable social businesses that improve the livelihoods of many in the

cities of Puducherry, India and Tan An, Vietnam

-Over the last year, the End Plastic Waste Innovation Platform with Plug and

Play has fostered start-ups that can impact the plastic value chain. The

programme has seen more than 1,000 start-ups from Silicon Valley and Paris

apply, while the third hub, Singapore, has seen widespread interest when it

kicked off its accelerator programme this summer.

-Suez, as a world leader in smart and sustainable resource management and also

a founding member of the Alliance, is bringing its technology know-how to

address plastic waste leakage in Thailand and a plastic recycling plant is now

being built, the company's first outside of Europe. This plant will convert

30,000 tons of locally collected polyethylene film waste into recycled materials.

-Examples of our cross-value chain collaboration include:

        -Milliken, Llyondellbasell and Berry Global are working together on a study of

a secondary sorting system: an innovation to introduce a secondary pass at

materials recovery so we can increase the recovery of valuable materials like

paper and various categories of plastics

        PepsiCo, The Procter & Gamble Company, CP Chemical and Dow Investing in the

Ocean Fund by Circulate Capital to meet a financing gap for plastic waste

collection in Asia across countries like China, Indonesia, the Philippines,

Thailand and Vietnam.

David Taylor, Chairperson, Alliance to End Plastic Waste and Chairman,

President & CEO, The Procter & Gamble Company, highlights in the report:

"Plastic waste is a serious challenge that requires swift action and strong

leadership, and I am convinced that the only way to get there is through

collective action, innovation and partnership. The Alliance is in a unique

position. We can unlock circularity and economic value in post-consumer plastic

by supporting a range of innovative measures along the value chain, involving

individuals and the public and private sectors."

The 2020 Progress Report also announced the Alliance's 2025 Ambition. With a

strategic focus on infrastructure development, innovation, clean up and

education and engagement, the Alliance and its members will build investable

models and partnerships within five years that will:

-Demonstrate zero plastic waste in multiple cities and divert well over

millions tons of plastic waste through Alliance projects in more than 100

at-risk cities.

-Support healthy livelihoods for over 100 million people by enabling local

ownerships of waste management.  

-Unlock at least five times its investment and much more to accelerate actions

and solutions to end plastic waste and build sustainable cities.

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste's 2020 Progress Report can be downloaded at

http://bit.ly/Alliance_ProgressReportPRN 

About the Alliance to End Plastic Waste

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste is an international non-profit organization

partnering with government, environmental and economic development NGOs and

communities around the world to address the challenge to end plastic waste in

the environment. Through programs and partnerships, the Alliance focuses on

solutions in four strategic areas: infrastructure, innovation, education and

engagement, and clean up. As of August 2020, the Alliance has nearly 50 member

companies and supporters representing global companies and organisations across

the plastic value chain.

Visit: www.endplasticwaste.org

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