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Trash piled high at the Bantar Gebang landfill in Bekasi, near Jakarta.

Sisa Kumbahan

We don’t need a plastics treaty for nations to enact polluter-pays laws now: Doug Woodring

The head of waste management non-profit Ocean Recovery Alliance tells the EB Podcast that recycled content mandates will drive the circular economy better than caps on virgin plastic production. Brands should be pressured more than petrochemical producers to phase out unnecessary plastics, he says.
A beach in Balikpapan, Indonesia's "oil city", is covered in plastic trash.

Sisa Kumbahan

Southeast Asia has too much to lose – we need an ambitious plastics treaty: Singapore campaigner Terese Teoh

Speaking from the INC-5.2 talks in Geneva, the Singapore Youth for Climate Action president argues that having no treaty is better than a watered-down pact with no limits on plastic production. But there is no explicit Asean-wide support for such caps now, she observes.

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