Projects

The training modules were designed after a public consultation workshop, which helped us understand pressing issues that needed to be addressed. This year-long training program was funded by The Incubation Network.

The publication offers a strategic perspective on the necessary collaboration and innovations with regard to sustainable packaging. The publication identifies the social and economic bottlenecks that stand in the way of sustainable packaging.

KIDV wanted to create a live webcast discussing sustainable packaging with diverse stakeholders to release the publication to a larger audience. be Waste Wise joined the team to strategize and structure the webinar.

The final webinar, “Beyond closing the loops: PackForward - Join the future of sustainable packaging,” was a 2-hour livecast with a roundtable. The panelists included Chris Bruijnes, Managing Director, KIDV; Roland ten Klooster, Professor of Packaging Design, Twente University; Robbert de Vreede, VP of Food and Drink for Unilever; and Tom Szaky, CEO, Terracycle, moderated by Tracy Sutton, Founder and Lead Consultant of Root.

Thanal's three-fold strategy involved advocacy support for infrastructure, a campaign for the promotion of source-level composting and source segregation of waste, and capacity-building for the operation and maintenance of community composting units. As part of the project, several awareness programs were conducted in residents' associations, educational institutions and public places on source-level waste management, impacts of plastic waste burning, and composting techniques. The Thanal Team also organized school students to create a Green Army. They also developed a curriculum for schools called the Green Action Plan, which included information about source segregation, composting, organic farming and energy conservation.

In addition to vocational and technical training, the project also mapped all material recovery facilities and waste dumps in the city. The Thanal team also worked with the City Corporation to formulate the Green Protocol guidelines for preventing the use of disposable plastic products in the city. The city responded to the campaign by banning the sale and use of plastic carry bags, disposable plastic cups, plates, and plastic-lined paper cups.

The paper detailed the impacts of COVID-19 on plastic recycling value chains and proposed a three-phased approach for interventions to prevent lasting damage to the recycling value chain. be Waste Wise was hired as a consultant to work with study participants and authors to update the report with ongoing changes and help publicize findings to a larger audience. We structured two private knowledge-sharing sessions with all study participants and put together a webinar with select participants as panelists for public viewing.

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