Rwanda single-use plastics law

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  Minnesota HF 3911 (Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act)

  Minnesota, USA | Early implementation

  Packaging EPR law enacted in 2024 with reuse and reduction goals; producers cover at least half of costs from 2029.

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• Law or Bill

  Panama plastic bag ban (Law 1 of 2018)

  Panama | In force

  Panama became the first country in Central America to ban single-use polyethylene bags, relevant to our Bocas del Toro projects.

  Policy and advocacy
• Law or Bill

  Maryland SB 901 (Packaging and Paper Products Producer Responsibility)

  Maryland, USA | Early implementation; payments expected from 2028

  Packaging EPR law enacted in 2025 that allows more than one producer responsibility organization.

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• Research

  Evaluating scenarios toward zero plastic pollution

  Lau, W. et al. (Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ) | Science | 2020

  Modelled every major intervention together and found that combining reduction, substitution, better collection and recycling could cut plastic flows to the ocean by about 80 percent by 2040. The basis of the report “Breaking the Plastic Wave”.

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