Together with local actors and international brands, UNIDO is setting up a scheme to identify opportunities for valorizing post-industrial and pre-consumer waste streams from the textile and garment industries in Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia. In addition, UNIDO is cooperating with the ZDHC foundation to establish local capacities that can assist the textile and garment producers in phasing-out hazardous chemicals from their value chain.
Plastic has become the universal packaging material of our economies. Most plastics rarely get a second chance and instead end up in the waste. This wasteful behaviour not only contributes to mounting plastic pollution, but is also a missed economic opportunity for societies as valuable resources are being wasted. Together with the Government of Israel, UNIDO contributes in SwitchMed to improve the Extended Producer Responsibility scheme for plastic packaging in Israel, extending the lifetime of plastic in the local value chain and thereby reducing waste.
