Steering the process - Policymakers' scope for action to promote a single-use plastic-free environment

Existing production and consumption patterns worldwide are mainly based on a linear commodity economy. Especially Single-Use Plastic ends up as waste after a short and single use - with disastrous consequences for marine and terrestrial ecosystems. To change this, we need solutions that prevent single-use plastic from entering the market in the first place. But how to prevent SUP when it comes to Food Delivery and Takeaway? What are existing good practices, and how can they be scaled? In two workshops, start-ups and companies from Southeast Asia and Germany present their existing business models for reusable systems. Together with legislators and policymakers, the political, legal, and social framework conditions that promote such reusable systems are discussed. The meetings aim to initiate a long-term, goal-oriented exchange between policymakers and companies opting for reusable systems.

This is the second workshop in which representatives from local and national governments as well as the EU Commission will present planned or already underway instruments to avoid single-use plastic in restaurants and delivery services.In our first workshop (on 22 June 2021), companies and start-ups from Southeast Asia and Germany present their business models for reusable systems for meal delivery and takeaway.  (If you are interested in attending, please let us know, and we will be delighted to send you the invitation).

Both events are organised by the global project “Export Initiative for Green Technologies” implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment. The CAP SEA (Collaborative Action to reduce single-use plastic in Southeast Asia) initiative as a module within the project aims to reduce plastic waste and promote concepts and strategies for reuse systems in Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. 

English-Thai simultaneous translation will be available.