Archive - Author: Lucy Cox

21 critical decision points governments must address to optimise EPR regulations

The global spotlight on national waste legislation is intensifying, and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) stands at the forefront. EPR offers a compelling solution for financing sustainable waste management, embodying the ‘polluter pays’ principle. Simply put, EPR mandates that producers, importers, and brands take responsibility for the lifecycle of their products, either by directly managing waste […]

EPR Focus: How to involve informal collectors

By Maria Accioly, Pedro Succar and Thierry Sanders   Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations are reshaping global waste management. While approximately 40 countries have implemented EPR, significantly increasing waste management budgets, a stark disparity exists. About 150 countries, many low-income, lack EPR and rely heavily on an estimated 20 million informal waste pickers.  KOLEKT has […]

EPR Focus: Mandatory vs. Voluntary Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)

As of today, some 40 nations have placed the responsibility for the collection of packaging waste or the payment of the waste collection costs with the companies that sell the products and packaging. This regulation, called Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), is probably the most effective step taken in decades to generate more funds for waste […]

Annual Report 2024

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EPR Focus: Elevating Extended Producer Responsibility beyond collections

The global spotlight on national waste legislation is intensifying, and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) stands at the forefront. EPR offers a compelling solution for financing sustainable waste management, embodying the ‘polluter pays’ principle. Simply put, EPR mandates that producers, importers, and brands take responsibility for the lifecycle of their products, either by directly managing waste […]

KOLEKT in demand for EPR legislation development

Fresh from discussions with the South Asia Co-operative Environment Programme member countries about financing options for addressing plastic pollution, Kolekt Founder, Thierry Sanders, met with the Kolekt app development team in India last week to discuss future developments that will both improve user experience, but also further develop the architecture for a suite of EPR systems. […]

Plastic Collective chooses KOLEKT for monitoring and traceability of waste transactions

The Plastic Collective, a leading social enterprise focused on solving the plastic waste epidemic, will start using the KOLEKT waste management app to monitor all its plastics purchasing and processing transactions. The Kolekt mobile solution, developed by BVRio Group company Kolekt, will be used at Plastic Collective partner locations in Ghana and Indonesia. The plastic […]

Press Coverage: Brazil’s big push for tropical forest funding gets support for 2025 debut

Publication: Mongabay Publication date: 23, December 2024 Pedro Moura Costa speaks to Mongabay about the Tropical Forest Mechanism and how it works with the Tropical Forest Forever Fund: “The mechanism foresees the formulation of a global pledge, but it is not up to the proposing organizations alone to launch or carry it out,” Costa said. […]

RCF wins impact investment of the year award: agriculture and sustainable land use

We are pleased to report that the Responsible Commodities Facility created by BVRio Strategic Partner, Sustainable Investment Management (SIM), has won the Environmental Finance ‘Impact project/investment of the year: Agriculture and sustainable land use’ award. The awards are judged by an independent panel and seek to recognise and reward the work of impact investors everywhere […]

Circular Credits Mechanism Standard and implementation guidelines for socially inclusive waste recovery activities