GAIA (Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives)

Related solutions

• Law or Bill

  EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR)

  European Union | Applies since 12 August 2026, with later phase-ins

  Sets EU-wide rules for recyclable design, recycled content, reuse targets and labelling for all packaging.

  Policy and advocacy
• Organization

  Precious Plastic

  Founded 2013

  Free open-source plans for small shredders, extruders and presses so any community can recycle plastic into products locally.

  Collection and recyclingEducation and community
• 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”.

  Policy and advocacyResearch and science
• 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