A future free from all plastic pollution. This is the goal of the Plastics Movement Alignment Project, an international alliance of environmental groups who have come together to identify best practice solutions to reduce plastic pollution and promote a more sustainable way of life that is nurturing to both people’s health and the environment.
Various international groups, including Health Care Without Harm Asia, recently convened to discuss how to address the growing waste problem through more environmentally sound waste management without causing further damage to the ecosystem and public health. From facilitating collaborations between communities and various sectors to adapt a more sustainable design and manufacturing practices to opposing waste-to-energy and other burn technologies, the movement aims to advocate a healthier world free from the toxicity caused by plastic pollution.
“Waste continues to be a growing problem not only in the Philippines but in many developing countries especially in the Asia region,” explained Ayeth Enrile. Medical Waste Campaigner of HCWH Asia. “As climate change and other environmental crises exacerbate health problems, we need to re-examine the ways we produce and consume. Plastic is a glaring symbol of our wasteful lifestyle practices and we are paying with our health.”
Representatives from members of the Plastic Movement Alignment Project during the group's meeting in Tagaytay, Philippines.
“As advocates of the environment and public health, Health Care Without Harm Asia fully supports the Plastics Movement Alignment Project,” expressed HCWH Asia Director Ramon San Pascual. “We also encourage our hospitals and health facilities, who are also significant contributors of waste, to begin not only practice sustainable health care waste management in their facilities but also start considering sustainable purchasing for their medical devices and supplies.”
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