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Promotion of community resilience against plastic pollution and climate change in the Mekong River Basin

Past event / This event will highlight the achievements of the Mekong River project in capacity building on the assessment and monitoring of riverine plastic pollution.

SEI’s Diane Archer features in plastics circular economy e-learning course

Media coverage / This module covers policies to encourage circularity in production and consumption, and outlines the important role played by informal waste actors.

BaltiPlast – Baltic Approaches to Handling Plastic Pollution under a Circular Economy Context

Project / BaltiPlast aims to foster the prevention and reduction of single-use plastics and plastic packaging in the Baltic Sea Region.

Viet Nam’s craft villages and occupational air pollution: socioeconomic disparities and gendered exposures

SEI brief / This policy brief summarizes research on gender, age and other socioeconomic and cultural factors that lead to air pollution exposures in Viet Nam's workplaces.

Analysis of the plastic waste value chain in India: a scoping study

SEI report / This report provides an overview of the complex plastic value chain in India, the key stakeholders involved, and their roles and interactions.

Plastic pollution crisis and throwaway culture

Past event / The Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University will host an international seminar on plastic pollution in Thailand.

Plastic waste management and recycling in Mombasa, Kenya: A scoping study of the value chain and its institutional, policy and regulatory frameworks

SEI report / This report focuses on the framework for establishing effective plastic waste management and recycling practices in Mombasa, Kenya.

Socioeconomic factors of plastic waste collection in Thailand and beyond

Media coverage / SEI Asia's Diane Archer looks into the complicated nature of plastic waste systems in Thailand and Asia, introduces ecosystem actors and addresses the effects.

Outside the safe operating space of the planetary boundary for novel entities

Journal article / The safe operating space of the novel entities planetary boundary is exceeded, as annual production and releases are faster than global assessment capacity.