Rethinking Single Use Plastic Products in Travel & Tourism

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COVID-19 led to a proliferation of single-use plastic products (SUPPs), adding urgency to the global challenge of single-use plastic pollution, which has significant environmental impacts and negatively affects the attractiveness of destinations. Yet, the pandemic provided a unique opportunity to reflect on the changes required to build back a greener and more sustainable future.

While the Travel & Tourism sector is increasingly implementing SUPP elimination strategies with the aim of moving towards more circular approaches, individual efforts are not enough. How can the sector collaborate across the value chain to ensure a transition towards reduce and reuse models in line with circularity principles as well as current and future waste infrastructures?

• Speakers include:
• Darrell Wade, Head of Sustainability, WTTC and Co-founder & Chairman, @intrepidtravel
• Elisa Tonda, Head of the Consumption and Production Unit, @UNEP
• Megan Morikawa, Global Director of Sustainability, @iberostar
• Andreas Vermöhlen, Manager Sustainability / Circular Economy, Sustainable Development, @TUIGroupCorporate
• Atty. Jonas R Leones, Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and International Affairs, Department of Environment & Natural Resources, Government of Philippines
• Jo Hendrickx, Co-founder, Travel Without Plastics
• Moderated by Ian Taylor, Travel Weekly