CIL Research Fellow Liu Yulu has contributed a chapter titled Singapore: City-State’s Comprehensive Countermeasures to Plastic Pollution Management to the recently released book, Plastic Pollution Countermeasures: Effective Global Actions and Case Studies from East Asia, edited by Fusanori Iwasaki et al and published by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia.

This chapter examines Singapore's approach to plastic pollution as a land-scarce city-state whose near-universal waste collection and reliance on waste-to-energy incineration limit domestic terrestrial plastic leakage, leaving consumption reduction and material circularity as its central challenges. It surveys the regulatory framework — the Zero Waste Masterplan, the Resource Sustainability Act with its extended producer responsibility and mandatory packaging-reporting obligations, and the disposable carrier-bag charge — and assesses their progress towards a circular plastics economy.

The book is available as an open access publication and can be accessed here: https://www.eria.org/publications/plastic-pollution-countermeasures--effective-global-actions-and-case-studies-from-east-asia