Redirecting resources: Governments urged to raise waste infrastructure investments for emerging markets
Emerging markets received only 6% of plastic waste management investments over recent years, despite the greater impact of plastic pollution in these economies, according to the The Circulate Initiative — a non-profit that has recently released an investment tracker tool to aid funding for underfinanced regions.
We sit down with Umesh Madhavan, research director at the non-profit, to discuss geographical investment imbalances and the role reuse and refill solutions can play in addressing related issues.