{"id":6510,"date":"2020-02-24T13:13:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T07:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=6510"},"modified":"2020-02-24T13:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T07:46:11","slug":"world-wide-fund-wwf-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/world-wide-fund-wwf-report\/","title":{"rendered":"World Wide Fund (WWF) Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims\/Mains: G.S paper III: Environment<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wwfs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6511\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wwfs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wwfs.jpg 299w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/wwfs-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new report by the World Wide Fund (WWF) analyses the volume of plastic packaging placed on the market in six rapidly growing Asian economies \u2014 China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The report was commissioned by German consultancy GVM, which specialises in the packaging market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WWF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6512\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WWF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WWF.jpg 252w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WWF-150x119.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Key highlights of the report:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The report finds 93% of the waste of low-income countries is dumped in the environment, compared to 4% in high-income countries.<\/li>\n<li>Single-use plastics and packaging for consumer goods, particularly, increase plastic pollution. Globally, 36% of plastic usage is for packaging and over a third of it lands up into the environment.<\/li>\n<li>Of the six countries analysed in the report, Malaysia\u2019s per capita plastic packaging consumption is the highest, at 16.78 kg.<\/li>\n<li>China\u2019s annual household packaging consumption is the highest, at 19,765 million tonnes.<\/li>\n<li>The report estimates that 60% of marine plastic pollution originates in these countries and 8 million tonnes of plastic enters the oceans every year. 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