In our latest blog on the issues raised by COP26, Dr Francis Oremo of the University of Nairobi explains why addressing plastic pollution and the wider climate crisis requires not just cleaner manufacturing or improved recycling but a complete rethink of our relationship to the planet. The increasingly serious impact of the plastic crisis on […]
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Previous blogs in our COP26 series have outlined the links between plastic pollution and climate change. Here, The University of Surrey’s Shashi Kant Yadav explains why this relationship is actually much deeper and much more insidious than you might have realised. “If plastics were a country, it would be the world’s fifth-largest greenhouse gas emitter, […]
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In the first week of COP26, Irene Maithya of Moi University, Kenya takes a timely deeper dive into the relationship between plastic pollution and the global environmental crisis. Plastics What comes to mind when you think about plastic? You may think about how convenient it is when you pick up your takeout order, your Personal […]
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Professor Rosalind Malcolm, co-director of the Governing Plastics Network, opens our coverage of COP26 by explaining why plastic pollution and climate change are all part of the same wicked problem, one driven by a culture of unsustainable consumption. The environmental crisis currently being discussed at the COP26 conference in Glasgow has many causes, and our […]
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More than half of Africa’s 54 nations are now pursuing some form of anti-plastic legislation. Amongst these how has Rwanda, a country with a particularly troubled history, become informally known as one of the cleanest on the planet? Rwanda was one of the first of its neighbours to take up the fight against plastic pollution, […]
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In the inaugural blog post the Governing Plastics Network‘s Director, Professor Nicholas Oguge of the University of Nairobi, Kenya, presents an overview of the current challenges facing African nations in their fight against plastic pollution. Perspectives on Plastic Governance from Africa – Critical areas INTRODUCTION In Africa, plastic is ubiquitous across most facets of the […]
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