Africa > INTERVIEW: Plastic credits for waste recovery can help plug financing, regulatory gaps

INTERVIEW: Plastic credits for waste recovery can help plug financing, regulatory gaps

Published 11:40 on April 24, 2024  /  Last updated at 11:48 on April 24, 2024  / /  Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Biodiversity, EMEA, International, Voluntary

Plastic credits should be used wherever there’s a financing gap to make plastic collection happen and as a bridge to extended producer responsibility regulation, while they should be sufficiently expensive to dissuade plastic makers from producing the waste in the first place, according to a developer of track and trace software for waste recovery.
Plastic credits should be used wherever there’s a financing gap to make plastic collection happen and as a bridge to extended producer responsibility regulation, while they should be sufficiently expensive to dissuade plastic makers from producing the waste in the first place, according to a developer of track and trace software for waste recovery.


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