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Source: EndPlasticWaste
The Alliance will focus its efforts on larger-scale programs, targeting specific geographies or key challenge areas, to drive significant systems change and provide solutions for reducing and recycling plastic waste. Catalyzing capital will become increasingly crucial as the Alliance enhances its utilization of innovative financing models and partnerships to secure the necessary investments for countries to advance along the recycling maturity curve.
Since its inception in 2019, the Alliance and its partners have successfully reduced 239,985.48 tonnes of unmanaged plastic waste and valorized 253,211.80 tonnes.
As we mark five years of action, our focus is sharper than ever. The experience we’ve gained from projects across emerging economies has made clear what works, and where we must go next. Our Strategy 2030 builds on those lessons, and we are doubling down on what works to drive greater impact at scale.
Jacob Duer, President and CEO, Alliance to End Plastic Waste
The 2024 Progress Report provides a glimpse into the cumulative impact and evolving portfolio of the Alliance over the past five years:
Building on the lessons learned over the past five years, the Alliance is evolving its operational approach to achieve greater impact quickly and at scale, in collaboration with governments, development finance institutions, and civil society organizations.
Under the new strategy, the Alliance will pivot towards co-developing larger-scale, integrated efforts with a diverse range of partners, including governments and financial institutions, rather than focusing on smaller projects. These initiatives will be categorized as either country-specific, aligning with national priorities, or thematic, tackling persistent global challenges related to plastics circularity.
A team of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has engineered a recyclable yarn made from polyethylene, offering a scalable solution to the global challenge of textile waste. Detailed in ACS Materials Letters, the research was led by Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, alongside first author SeongHyeon Kim and co-authors Duo Xu, Volodymyr Korolovych, Domingo Flores-Hernandez, Kaniz Moriam, and Daniel Braconnier.
The MIT team demonstrated that garments crafted from the engineered yarn can be melted down at the end of their lifecycle and respun into fresh fiber or molded into solid plastic hardware, such as buttons and belt buckles.
ABB and Swedish textile impact company Syre have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore how automation, electrification, and digital technologies can support the development of Syre’s first industrial-scale textile-to-textile recycling facility in Gia Lai province, Vietnam.
The exploratory collaboration provides a framework to assess how advanced process control, quality optimization, and electrical infrastructure can enable safe, efficient, and scalable production of circular polyester.
UK retailer Aldi and dairy cooperative Arla Foods have partnered with recycling tech specialist Polytag to initiate an operational pilot aimed at tracking milk bottles through the UK recycling stream using advanced ultraviolet (UV) tagging technology.
Building on an initial pilot conducted in 2023, the collaboration seeks to gather granular, data-driven insights into how packaging moves beyond the point of sale and behaves within municipal waste systems.