Waste

• Vladamir Putin warned that the Islamic State militants in Kurdish custody must not be allowed to flee.
• Vladamir Putin has said that the development of genetically-modified soldiers is the next phase of military combat -- and one worse than nuclear bombs.
• If trends continue without improvements in the way we manage plastic waste, we could be spewing as much as 90 million tonnes of plastic waste into the world's waters by 2030.
• An estimation of over 1.6 million tonnes of waste are generated in Zimbabwe annually with the figure expected to surpass five million tonnes per year by 2030 if no action is taken.
• The response to food waste was often inadequate and the amount of food thrown away or lost each year will rise by a third to 2.1 billion tonnes by 2030.
• The problem of solar panel disposal will explode with full force in two or three decades and wreck the environment' because it 'is a huge amount of waste and they are not easy to recycle.
• Global food loss and waste is the focus of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 12, which aims at halving wastage by 2030.
• The goal of the Coalition of Action on Food Waste is to cut in half global food loss per capita by 2025.
• While goal 12 sets to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels by 2030, CPF aims for zero food loss in the production line and food waste throughout the supply chain in Thailand.
• One target of UN Sustainable Development Goal 12 Sustainable Consumption and Production is to halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses, by 2030.
• The Scottish Government has a target of reducing food waste, which emits greenhouse gases if it goes to landfill, by a third by 2025.
• The CEP confirms that future national waste plans for England will set out the measures the UK will take to recycle 65% of municipal waste by 2035 and to have no more than 10% municipal waste going to landfill by 2035.
• Policymakers are facing pressure to reverse or suspend legislation that would address plastic waste and pollution, such as Canada's proposal to ban harmful single-use plastics by 2021.
• Policy-makers are facing pressure to reverse or suspend legislation that would address plastic waste and pollution, such as Canada's proposal to ban harmful single-use plastics by 2021.
• Human settlements are producing solid waste at increasing rates and unless trends change by 2050 the amount of solid waste generated annually could double.
• Using more renewable inputs and reusing, refurbishing and recycling clothes could lead to $130 billion in savings and prevent 148 million tonnes of textile waste by 2030.
• By the end of this decade, some 8 million tons of solar panel waste could find their way into landfills across the world.
• Greater collaboration will help accelerate progress towards achieving targets set out in Courtauld 2025 and the UN's Sustainable Development Goal 12.3 to halve per capita food waste by 2030.
• Absent major changes in plastic waste management, the amount going to the oceans, will nearly triple by 2040, from 11 million metric tons to 29 million tonnes.
• Roughly 8 million tons of solar photovoltaic panels are expected to hit landfills globally by the end of this decade, rising to 80 million by midcentury, when they could account for about 10% of all electronic waste.
• All the efforts made and announced so far to cut plastic waste, by governments and companies, will reduce projected volume by only about 7% by 2040.
• Plastic entering the marine environment is set to double by 2040 and, unless the world acts, more than 1.3 billion tonnes of plastic waste will be dumped on land and in waterbodies.

Last updated: 04 October 2020