Worldwide Review of Single-Use Plastics Restrictions for CLiP in Belize

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Cefas awarded a contract to Eunomia Research and Consulting Ltd for desktop studies to support CLiP activities and recommendations in Belize, which aimed to implement a ban on types of single-use plastics in April 2019.

The studies covered a worldwide review of currently implemented bans/restrictions by countries on single-use plastics and/or polystyrene, their implementation and subsequent efficiency including economic, environmental, policy and legal implications, and recommendations for future bans; and a worldwide review of alternative materials now used to replace currently banned items/materials, their economic, social and environmental impacts, success of their replacement, a pro-cons assessment between materials, and the ability of countries with varying levels of waste management to sustainably process these alternative materials after use.

The contract value was £24,012.