Tag: plastic packaging

• Plastic pollution: Tackling a global crisis with local action

  We have teamed up with the Mekong Institute in Khon Kaen, Thailand, to design and implement strategies that not only curb single-use plastics in local street food markets – but could also provide the foundation to develop international standards. We are working with local street food vendors, market managers, and customers to incentivise dining in with reusable tableware, nurture a “bring your own container” culture, and replace single-use plastics with alternative materials.

• Disclaimer: A product is not reusable just because it can be washed

  A new standard is on the cards: plastic tableware that can be washed more than five times in a dishwasher might be redefined as reusable by European standardisers. Aiming at such short rotation and without a proper reuse system in place, however, these are simply single-use plastic products, which today are banned by the Single-use Plastics Directive. Greenwashing in the making?