{"id":1412,"date":"2020-08-06T03:30:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T03:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=26098"},"modified":"2020-09-14T04:22:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T04:22:40","slug":"pata-joins-global-tourism-plastic-initiative-to-take-on-plastic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/pata-joins-global-tourism-plastic-initiative-to-take-on-plastic-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"PATA Joins Global Tourism Plastic Initiative to Take on Plastic Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/more-news\/world\/pata-joins-global-tourism-plastic-initiative-to-take-on-plastic-pollution\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"PATA Joins Global Tourism Plastic Initiative to Take on Plastic Pollution-TRAVELINDEX\" src=\"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/PATA-Joins-Global-Tourism-Plastic-Initiative-to-Take-on-Plastic-Pollution-TRAVELINDEX-500x299.jpg\" alt=\"PATA Joins Global Tourism Plastic Initiative to Take on Plastic Pollution\" width=\"500\" height=\"299\" style=\"max-width: 100%;height: auto\" \/><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>Bangkok, Thailand, August 6, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has today become a signatory of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, led by the United Nations Environment Programme and World Tourism Organization, in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainablefirst.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sustainable First <\/a>supports and is a signatory to the <strong>Global Tourism Plastics Initiative<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Global Tourism Plastics Initiative<\/strong> unites the tourism sector behind a common vision to address the root causes of plastic pollution. It enables businesses and governments to take concerted action, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainablefirst.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leading by example<\/a> in the shift towards a circularity in the use of plastics.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0a\u00a0signatory\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>Global\u00a0Tourism Plastics Initiative<\/strong>,\u00a0PATA commits to\u00a0eliminate, innovate and circulate its use of plastics. Specifically, by 2025,\u00a0PATA\u00a0commits to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encouraging affiliated organisations and businesses of partners to join the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative by spreading the word through media channels by August 2020, by highlighting 5 successful members\u2019 case studies by January 2021 and by including plastics as\u00a0key component of promoting sustainability in tourism supply chains by June 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Advising and guiding members to better manage plastics in their operations by integrating workshops, toolkits and trainings into Tour Link Project promoting sustainability in the Thai tourism supply chain by June 2021.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cAs a signatory of the Global\u00a0Tourism Plastics Initiative, PATA endorses the common vision to address the root cause of plastic pollution. We recognise that there are many opportunities to solve the plastic problem, but various challenges remain as organisations may want to focus on other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainablefirst.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sustainability priorities<\/a> or are not sure of where or how to remove and reduce plastic. Therefore, PATA is committed in helping advise and guide our members to better manage plastics throughout their entire supply chain,\u201d said PATA CEO Dr. Mario Hardy. \u201cWe encourage all of our members, partners, and affiliated organisations and businesses to join the Global\u00a0Tourism Plastics Initiative. Together, through each of our individual commitments we can overcome the plastic challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Developed within the framework of the <strong>Sustainable Tourism Programme<\/strong> of the One Planet network, a multi-stakeholder partnership to implement SDG 12 on Sustainable Consumption and Production, the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative is led by the United Nations\u00a0Environment Programme and the World Tourism Organisation, in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.\u00a0The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative\u00a0acts as\u00a0the tourism sector interface of the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment, which unites more than 450 businesses, governments, and other organisations behind a common vision and targets to address plastic waste and pollution at its source. As such, the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative will implement the New Plastics Economy vision, framework and definitions to mobilise the global tourism industry towards concerted significant action against plastic pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Global Tourism Plastics\u00a0Initiative<\/strong> aims\u00a0to stop plastic ending up as pollution\u00a0while\u00a0also\u00a0reducing\u00a0the amount of new plastic that needs to be produced.\u00a0To\u00a0realise\u00a0this vision,\u00a0tourism companies and destinations\u00a0commit\u00a0to\u00a0eliminate the plastic items\u00a0they\u00a0don\u2019t need;\u00a0innovate so all plastics\u00a0they\u00a0do need are designed to be safely reused, recycled, or composted; and\u00a0circulate everything\u00a0they\u00a0use to keep it in the economy and out of the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative requires tourism organisations to make a set of concrete and actionable commitments by 2025:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eliminate problematic or unnecessary plastic packaging and items by 2025;<\/li>\n<li>Take action to move from single-use to reuse models or reusable alternatives by 2025;<\/li>\n<li>Engage the value chain to move towards 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable;<\/li>\n<li>Take action to increase the amount of recycled content across all plastic packaging and items used<\/li>\n<li>Commit to collaborate and invest to increase the recycling and composting rates for plastics<\/li>\n<li>Report publicly and annually on progress made towards these targets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By\u00a0transitioning to circularity in the use of plastics,\u00a0the tourism sector can make positive contributions like\u00a0reducing landfill, pollution, natural resource depletion and greenhouse gas emissions;\u00a0raising awareness of conservation among staff and guests to avoid single-use plastic products;\u00a0influencing their suppliers to produce more sustainable alternatives to single-use plastic products;\u00a0working with governments to improve local waste infrastructure and community facilities;\u00a0and creating sustainable livelihoods and long-term community prosperity in harmony with nature.<\/p>\n<p>By taking serious action in a coordinated and determined manner on plastic pollution, the tourism sector can help preserve and protect the places and wildlife that make destinations worth visiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok, Thailand, August 6, 2020 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has today become a signatory of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, led by the United Nations Environment Programme and World Tourism Organization, in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Sustainable First supports and is a signatory to the Global Tourism Plastics &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}