ASEAN Regional Workshop on “Managing Packaging Waste – Preventing Marine Litter” in Nusa Dua | 31-Oct-2018-
01-Nov-2018 | Bali, Indonesia | Mr. Guilberto Borongan of RRC.AP presented in Session 2: Packaging value chains on “Managing packaging waste in the ASEAN region – current state of affairs”, and served as a panelist for a short oral presentation on relevant experiences and lessons learnt from a project, initiative and teaser related to the working group with the topic “Innovative incentives for consumers to return packaging waste” at the ASEAN Regional Workshop on “Managing Packaging Waste – Preventing Marine Litter“ in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on 31 October - 1 November 2018.
About 150 representatives from governments, cities, businesses, civil society and the academia participated in the event, which was held in subsequence to the “Our Ocean Conference 2018”. The Regional Workshop discussed solutions for packaging design and responsible production, packaging in retail and consumption, packaging waste collection, packaging waste sorting and recycling, the integration of the informal economy as well as source-to-sea management for preventing marine pollution. Discussed amongst others, were the approaches for extended producer responsibility, financing schemes, public awareness raising, partnerships along the packaging value chain, business opportunities, standards for packaging design and recycled materials, social benefits and safeguards and the role of regional trade and cooperation in ASEAN.
The ASEAN Regional Workshop was co-hosted by ASEAN, the Indonesian Ministry for Marine Affairs and Fisheries, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development and the Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta. It was organised by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
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