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Advancing a Circular Economy and Empowering the Informal Waste Sector

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USAID Convenes Partners to Ensure a Fair, Just, and Inclusive Design of the New International Plastic Treaty

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through its Clean Cities, Blue Ocean (CCBO) program, organized a meeting on the sidelines of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) conference to ensure the people on the frontlines of waste management--the informal waste collectors--have a voice in the first international legally binding treaty on plastic pollution. Read More

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean’s Solid Waste Cost-of-Service Analysis Editable Tool

This document accompanies the Solid Waste Cost-of-Service Analysis Tool. Read More

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean’s Solid Waste Cost-of-Service Analysis 

Guidelines for Local Governments Read More

Addressing Climate Change Through Circularity and Improved Solid Waste Management

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Conserving Marine Biodiversity by Combating Ocean Plastics

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Marine Litter Guidebook Tables

These tables accompany the Clean Cities, Blue Ocean Marine Litter Audit Guidebook Read More

Marine Litter Audit Guidebook

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean’s Marine Litter Audit Guidebook provides practical guidance on measuring the rate, extent, and composition of litter that is intentionally deposited on, or washes onto, a beach area to measure the extent and impacts of marine litter on beach-front areas in communities. Read More

Street Litter Audit Guidebook Tables

These tables accompany the Clean Cities, Blue Ocean Street Litter Audit Guidebook. Read More

Street Litter Audit Guidebook

Clean Cities, Blue Ocean’s Street Litter Audit Guidebook provides practical guidance on conducting street litter audits—a standardized approach to measuring the extent and impacts of litter on city streets and walkways to help to understand the extent of the litter problem in communities. Read More