Alliance to End Plastic Waste

Alliance to End Plastic Waste ; (AEPW)
founding	16th January 2019
Seat	London
Action space	International
Website	www.endplasticwaste.org

Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) (German: Alliance against plastic waste in the environment) is an international, non-governmental, non-profit organization of international corporations based in London .

According to the company, the aim is to promote solutions that reduce and avoid environmental pollution from plastic waste , especially in the oceans. AEPW works with the World Economic Council for Sustainable Development as a strategic partner and the United Nations Environment Program .

Initiatives

Cleaning rivers that wash plastic into the sea : In a first step, the alliance wants to support the Renew Ganges project of Renew Oceans (Renewlogy) from Salt Lake City , which collects rubbish on the Ganges in India and is supported by the National Geographic Society (NGS) becomes. Another nine rivers are to follow.
Development of infrastructure for waste collection and recycling, for example with cities with high amounts of waste, for example in Indonesia . A collaboration on the “STOP Ocean Plastics” project by Borealis and SYSTEMIQ is planned in Jembrana (Indonesia).
New recycling techniques: for example, the German chemical company BASF is leading the way with the chemical method developed in-house from the “ChemCycling” project, which aims to convert waste that previously could not be recycled back into raw material.
Education and involvement: The aim is to “move governments, companies and communities to action,” explains the initiative.

structure

As an umbrella organization, the alliance aims to coordinate work between companies and with governments and administrations at different levels and with partners from civil society.

Procter & Gamble CEO David S. Taylor took over the chairmanship in January 2019 . There are two vice-chairs. Currently Antoine Frérot from Veolia Environnement and Bhavesh V. "Bob" Patel, CEO of LyondellBasell.

Members

Founding members are BASF , Berry Global , Braskem , Chevron Phillips Chemical , Clariant , Covestro , Dow Chemical , DSM , ExxonMobil , Formosa Plastics Corporation USA , Henkel , LyondellBasell , Mitsubishi Chemical , Mitsui Chemicals , NOVA Chemicals , OxyChem , PolyOne Corporation , Procter & Gamble , Reliance Industries , Royal Dutch Shell , Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC), Sasol , Suez , SCG Chemicals , Sumitomo Chemical , Total , Veolia Environnement and Versalis (to Eni ). The US beverage groups The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo are also participating

Some of the member companies are also represented in the World Plastics Council for solutions to marine litter, which was founded in November 2014 for the plastics industry. The WPC consists of around 80 plastics associations in 35 countries.

budget

In January 2019, it was announced that members would spend $ 1 billion immediately and an additional $ 500 million over the next five years on combating pollution from plastic waste.

Web links

Homepage

Individual evidence

↑ https://endplasticwaste.org/latest/the-alliance-launches-partnership-with-project-stop-in-bali/
↑ https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/alliance-to-end-plastic-waste-targets-plastic-in-environment/
↑ Corporations set up an alliance against plastic waste in the environment. In: euwid-recycling.de. January 16, 2019, accessed on January 25, 2019 (German).

[1] ttps://endplasticwaste.org/latest/the-alliance-launches-partnership-with-project-stop-in-bali/

[2] ttps://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/alliance-to-end-plastic-waste-targets-plastic-in-environment/

[3] Corporations set up an alliance against plastic waste in the environment. In: euwid-recycling.de. January 16, 2019, accessed on January 25, 2019 (German).