BFFP Newsletter: Vietnam’s Plastic-Free Island, Tell Nestlé to Invest in Real Solutions, Europe’s Waste Trade Manifesto … and more!

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Subject: BFFP Newsletter: Vietnam’s Plastic-Free Island, Tell Nestlé to Invest in Real Solutions, Europe’s Waste Trade Manifesto … and more!

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Vietnam's Plastic Free Island

After 12 years of fighting plastic pollution, an island off the cost of Hoi An City has effectively become Vietnam’s first plastic-free island. In this clean, idyllic tourist hotspot, locals, businesses, and visitors alike have all fully embraced living without single-use plastics.

Check out the full video by Việt Nam News to see how they continue to succeed!

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Launching Soon: Plastic Atlas Asia

Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung’s Asia Global Dialogue Programme and Break Free From Plastic Asia Pacific are set to launch a special edition of Plastic Atlas focused on the particular challenges facing the region, along with potential solutions. The new Plastic Atlas covers the large and rapidly growing role that Asian economies as plastic producers, plastic consumers, contributors to the single-use plastic deluge, and as a dumping ground for the world’s plastic waste.

Please also stay tuned for Sustainable Asia’s five-episode podcast series on the report called “Mapping Asia’s Plastic Crisis” featuring #breakfreefromplastic changemakers.

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Tell Nestlé to Invest in Reuse and Refill Solutions

Today is Nestlé’s Annual General Meeting. The company used 1.3 million tonnes of plastic in 2020 alone, and it has been named one of the Top 3 plastic polluters in every Brand Audit!

Join Greenpeace and other #breakfreefromplastic changemakers who are telling the company to invest in real solutions like reuse and refill systems.

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Malaysia returns more than 300 containers of illegal plastic waste

Malaysia is currently working to return 81 shipping containers of unlicensed plastic waste from the United States, Italy, and other countries around the world that violated Malaysia’s strict import laws, as well as the international Basel Convention agreement on plastic waste trade.

Many countries started shipping their waste to Malaysia illegally following China’s ban on plastic imports in 2018. In fact, Malaysia has already sent more than 250 shipping containers of illicit plastic waste back to their countries of origin since 2019.

Plastic Waste Trade Manifesto in Europe

This week, Rethink Plastic Alliance and Zero Waste Europe have launched the Waste Trade Manifesto to urge European policymakers to take action on the illegal plastic waste trade. This has been happening for decades and is felt disproportionately across the world.

Over fifty organizations have signed up to declare the plastic waste trade manifesto:

“...We cannot aim to achieve a truly circular economy with ambitious reductions in resource use while we continue to offload the burden of our plastic waste elsewhere. This manifesto is a call to EU institutions to take action towards a truly circular economy.”

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