- ISO14000 environmental management standards
- Government influences
- Voluntary Packaging Agreement, Singapore
- Officially launch on July 2007 by NEA,
National Environment Agency
- Reduce Packaging waste
- Based on product stewardship
- EPEATS :
- Reduction/Elimination of
Environmentally Sensitive Materials
- Energy Conservation
- Design for End of Life
- End of Life Management
- Sustainable Manufacturing
- CEPA 1999, Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999
- Aim to prevent pollution and protect the environment
- Tools to manage pollution and waste
- Kyoto Protocol, United Nation
- A total of 172 countries to date have
ratified the agreement
- Objectives is to reduce carbon dioxide emission by year 2012
- Banning of thin Polyethylene bags in Sri Lanka
- Rectifying waste pollution in Sri Lanka
- Plastic bags clog the sewage canal
- Lead to flooding and mosquitoes problems
- Consumer awareness
- Corporate Society Responsibility
- Stopglobalwarming.org
- Global Ecolabelling Network
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