We are delighted that we were part of EU Switch-Asia and the European Environmental Bureau’s webinar “Closing the Loop: How the EU’s Evolving EPR Policies Create New Opportunities for Asia-Pacific Businesses” on June 9, 2026. Gathering circular economy experts including our Managing Director Stefanie Beitien, this discussion focused on changes in the EU’s EPR trajectory and ways Asian stakeholders can align with or even benefit from new regulations. The EU’s shift towards a

As part of WTO Trade and Environment Week 2026, the Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the WTO and the Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs (TESS) co-organized a session to explore how developing countries can better align climate and trade strategies to advance their resilience, competitiveness, and sustainable development. It discussed how national trade-climate strategies can be designed and implemented in ways that are development-sensitive, internationally conn

The Philippines’ Extended Producer Responsibility Law began implementation in 2023, and is regarded as one of the most ambitious EPR laws, requiring large enterprises to take responsibility for an increasing percentage of their plastic footprint–measured in weight–from 20% in 2023 to 80% in 2028. Since then, EPR implementation and the increasing targets have put pressure not just on the Obliged Enterprises and Producer Responsibility Organizations, but most of all on the coun

In a Sustainable Views article by journalist Seth O’Farrell, plastic policy experts including our Managing Director Stefanie Beitien, Damien Sanjuan and Salmon Aidan Lee weighed in on the ongoing plastic treaty negotiations and the actions that national governments are individually carrying out to address the plastic crisis within their borders. “South-east Asian countries are disproportionately affected by the plastics crisis, so they are all very aware of the problem and a

27 January 2026 - Makati City, Philippines Plastic Reboot Philippines held its first Reuse and Refill Workshop on 27 January 2026, successfully convening key stakeholders from the private and public sectors in Makati City. The workshop provided a platform for participants to discuss how to design reuse and refill systems in the Food and Beverage (F&B) sector to improve safety, operational effectiveness, and compliance with regulatory frameworks. Plastic Reboot is a global p

We are proud to have had Ina Ballik, our Standards and Technology Manager, as a keynote speaker at Control Union’s recent global webinar: “Advancing Social Impact through Plastic Stewardship.” The session brought together sustainability leaders to address a critical challenge in the circular economy: How can organizations align environmental recovery with meaningful social objectives? The PPRS Framework: Beyond Material Recovery Drawing from our extensive work under the Plast

Vietnam Today’s Inside Asia series honed in on Asia’s growing plastic pollution problem and invited PCX Solutions Managing Director Stefanie Beitien to share insights on solutions such as plastic credits and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). The interest in compliance schemes that include plastic credits is growing, especially from countries that are hard hit by the plastic crisis. They offer a way to channel money directly to waste management in fragmented systems whil

PCX Solutions recently joined partners across the world in Salvador, Brazil, for the First Annual Plastic Reboot Conference (October 22-24, 2025), representing the Philippines alongside UNIDO and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). Hosted by the Government of Brazil, the event brought together governments, Global Environment Facility (GEF) Secretariat, UN agencies, private sector and civil society to accelerate the shift toward circular systems. Over

Despite years of international negotiations, the world still does not have a global treaty to curb plastic pollution. With plastic waste...

Plastic Reboot organized a series of events ahead of the INC 5.2 negotiations in Geneva on August 4, 2025, and we were honored to have...

PCX Solutions’ Managing Director, Stefanie Beitien talks with Carbon Pulse about the role credits can play in supporting the global...

On November 12, the Plastic Credits Core Group of the PREVENT Waste Alliance successfully held a webinar entitled “How Plastic Credits...

Long one of the world's top sources of ocean plastic, the Philippines is hoping new legislation requiring big companies to pay for waste...

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s recently published technical paper, Extended Producer Responsibility: A Study on the Role of...

PCX Solutions, a not-for-profit organisation, has launched Version 8 of the Plastic Pollution Reduction Standard (PPRS). The organisation, which is based in Manila in the Philippines, works with governments all over the world on extended producer responsibility schemes (EPR). According to the company, the PPRS aims to provide a framework for the implementation of plastic accreditation programme. It highlighted that plastic credits assign value to plastic waste including “low

PCX Solutions provides an audited, transparent, verifiable system of collecting, transporting, and processing plastic waste to prevent...

Philippines-headquartered credit standard PCX Solutions has released an updated version of its plastic credit programme, formally...

The latest round of negotiations on the UN plastic treaty wrapped up on Monday with shy steps forward on the draft text, due to be...

GENEVA 22 September 2023 – At the WTO Public Forum, recently held in Geneva from 12-15 September 2023, the Philippines made a strong push...

Will recover and manage 100% of its plastic footprint volume in the archipelago Leaders of L’Oréal Philippines led by Yannick Raynaud,...