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Reducing malnutrition is a cornerstone of poverty reduction. General malnutrition and specific micronutrient deficiencies contribute to infant, child, and maternal morbidity; decreased learning capacity; lower productivity and higher mortality. Because malnutrition is often due to a combination...
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Breaking and Recycling Industry (SBRI) and to investigate the feasibility of ship breaking countries in this region … ship breaking and recycling industry. The study addresses the following: i) it assessed the productivity, competitiveness … this study, ship breaking and recycling is defined as an industry that, through the use of land, infrastructure, machinery …
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plastic waste, as well as sorting and then transporting plastic waste to a viable recycling market. This study combines a …
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and circular economy approaches. A waste hierarchy approach prioritizes waste prevention, reuse, recycling, and recovery … designing products to reduce waste, using products and materials for as long as possible, and recycling materials from end …
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The World Bank Group developed the Mozambique problue program (MozAzul) to provide comprehensive technical assistance to the Government of Mozambique on the blue economy agenda. The objective of the MozAzul program is to strengthen the knowledge base on the sustainable blue economy development...
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plastic packaging waste is critical for building a reuse and recycling system that enables a circular economy (CE). However …The enormous amount of plastic waste - especially litter from plastic packaging – that leaks into the natural …, despite the efforts of APEC members, the recycling rate of post-consumption plasticpackaging remains relatively low in most …
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This report is part of a larger series of stocktaking and analytical products on plastic pollution in South Asia. It supports the Bank's commitment to work with countries of South Asia to pursue and scale-up policies and programs that help them move toward a circular plastic economy and, in...
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Over the past decade, material efficiency and resource productivity have surfaced on the global policy agenda. The rise of the circular economy (CE) agenda reflects the objective of moving away from the current systems of production and consumption based on the 'take-make-use-waste’ linear...
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, plastic packaging, and fisheries) represented 78 percent of total plastic consumption in 2021. By 2026, the three sectors ….5 kilograms (kg) to 17.3 kg. The largest plastics consumer of the three sectors is plastic packaging, followed by construction …. The plastic packaging sector could focus on new, circular economy business models over the next five years. In this sector …
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