Dave Albao

Dave is currently leading the implementation of projects focused on reducing ocean plastic funded by USAID, GIZ, and the EU. Activities include advocating for zero-waste and circular enterprises, including micro businesses that are innovating to reduce single-use plastic waste from their operations.

VIDEO: Economic Instruments and Incentives for Promoting Integrated Solid Waste Management and Achieving a Circular Economy in Asia

This webinar reviewed trends and opportunities for using economic and market-based instruments (MBIs) for waste management, discussed regional and global experiences on implementing MBIs to manage resource use and minimize waste, and examined challenges and opportunities to scale up MBIs in the region and through ADB operations.

Marianne Bigum

Dr. Marianne Bigum Team is a plastic and circular economy consultant at ADB. Marianne Bigum previously worked at the Circular economy and waste department at the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, where she among other things worked with plastic waste management, policies and strategies. Marianne conducted research in Life cycle assessments of waste management at the Technical University, with a specific focus on environmental assessments of WEEE, with a focus on resource evaluation metal recovery.

WWF's EPR Project

This presentation covers progress and development of extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs in Southeast Asian countries and the World Wide Fund for Nature's support for EPR implementation in the region.