Ua hoʻokumu ʻia ka Initiative Plastik Turismo Global

The Travel Foundation has today announced its commitment to tackle plastic pollution as part of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, led by the UN Environment Programme and the World Tourism Organisation, in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative 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, leading by example in the shift towards a circular economy for plastics.

As a member of the Advisory Committee for the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, the Travel Foundation has helped co-create the initiative, including its menu of commitments for tourism organisations. These cover:

• ka hoʻopau ʻana i ka pilikia a i ʻole ka mea pono ʻole i ka pahu plastik a me nā mea i ka 2025;
• taking action to move from single-use to reuse models or reusable alternatives by 2025;
• engaging the value chain to move towards 100% of plastic packaging to be reusable, recyclable, or compostable;
• taking action to increase the amount of recycled content across all plastic packaging and items used;
• ka hoʻopaʻa ʻana i ka hana like ʻana a me ka hoʻopukapuka kālā e hoʻonui i ka uku hana hou a me ka compost no nā plastik;
• e hōʻike ana i ka lehulehu a i kēlā me kēia makahiki i ka holomua o kēia mau pahuhopu.

Jeremy Sampson, Chief Executive of the Travel Foundation, said:

“Through the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, we are creating a supportive network for businesses and governments to close the loop around plastic. The Travel Foundation has he mooolelo loihi of successfully working with hotels and other businesses to reduce their plastic and other waste. This is currently our focus in Kupelo, Mauritius and Saint Lucia, where we are working at both policy and operational level. This coming May, with our partners in Slovenia, we will convene an event to bring together public and private stakeholders and international experts, to drive forward their ambition to eliminate or reuse plastic items in tourism.”

Developed by the Sustainable Tourism Programme of the One Planet network, a multi-stakeholder partnership to implement the sustainable development goal on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SDG 12), the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative acts as the 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.

Ligia Noronha, UN Environment Programme Economy Division Director, said:

“Plastic pollution is one of the major environmental challenges of our time, and tourism has an important role to play in contributing to the solution. Through the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, tourism companies and destinations are supported to innovate, eliminate and circulate the way they use plastics, to help achieve circularity in the use of plastics and reduce plastics pollution globally.”

Mr. Zurab Pololikashvili, Secretary-General of the World Tourism Organization, said the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative is a great opportunity for tourism companies and destinations to step forward and lead the global effort addressing plastic pollution:

“Frontrunning tourism companies and destinations will set quantifiable targets as part of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative and accelerate the transformation of the tourism sector towards more integrated solutions and circular business models”.

The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative aims to stop plastic ending up as pollution while also reducing the amount of new plastic that needs to be produced. To realise this vision, tourism companies and destinations commit to eliminate the plastic items they don’t need; innovate so all plastics they do need are designed to be safely reused, recycled, or composted; and circulate everything they use to keep it in the economy and out of the environment.

Gerald Naber, New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Programme Manager, said:

“The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment unites more than 450 businesses, governments and others behind a clear vision of a circular economy for plastics. We welcome the launch of the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, led by UNEP and UNWTO, ka mea e hoʻohui i ka ʻoihana mākaʻikaʻi ma hope o kēia ʻike no kahi honua kahi i lilo ʻole ai ka plastic i mea ʻino a haumia. He huakaʻi paʻakikī ia, akā ma o ka hana hui ʻana, hiki iā mākou ke hoʻopau i nā plastics a mākou e pono ʻole ai a hana hou, no laila hiki i nā plastics a mākou e pono ai ke mālama palekana a maʻalahi hoʻi - mālama iā lākou i ka hoʻokele waiwai a ma waho o ke kaiapuni.

Ma ka hoʻololi ʻana i ka circularity i ka hoʻohana ʻana i nā plastics, hiki i ka ʻāpana mākaʻikaʻi ke hāʻawi i nā haʻawina maikaʻi e like me ka hōʻemi ʻana i ka pae ʻāina, ka pollution, ka hoʻopau ʻana i nā kumuwaiwai kūlohelohe a me ka hoʻokuʻu ʻana i ke kinoea hoʻomehana honua; e hoʻonui i ka ʻike o ka mālama ʻana ma waena o nā limahana a me nā malihini e pale i nā huahana plastik hoʻohana hoʻokahi; ka hoʻoulu ʻana i kā lākou mea hoʻolako e hana i nā mea ʻē aʻe i hoʻomau ʻia i nā huahana plastik hoʻohana hoʻokahi; e hana pū me nā aupuni e hoʻomaikaʻi i nā ʻōnaehana ʻōpala kūloko a me nā hale kaiāulu; a me ka hoʻokumu ʻana i nā ola hoʻomau a me ka pōmaikaʻi kaiāulu lōʻihi e like me ke ʻano.

Ma o ka hana koʻikoʻi ʻana i ke ʻano kaulike a hoʻoholo hoʻi i ka haumia ea, hiki i ka ʻāpana hoʻokipa ke kōkua i ka mālama ʻana a me ka pale ʻana i nā wahi a me nā holoholona hihiu e kipa ai i nā wahi mākaʻikaʻi.