30 Jan 2023 --- The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) Asia Pacific conducted a waste assessment and brand audit (WABA), claiming that Western plastic corporations are responsible for waste pollution in Asian countries. For years, brand audit reports have shown that consumer brands based in the Global North have been overproducing single-use plastics and flooding Asian markets with disposable, throwaway packaging, at the expense of citizens and local governments who end up footing the bill and enduring the long-lasting environmental health effects associated with plastic pollution, according to GAIA. “We, at the Global South, have carried the weight and responsibility of waste for too long while our reality and the community solutions we have developed are ignored,” says Froilan Grate, GAIA Asia Pacific coordinator.
