RT null T1 Report of the Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production, “Plastic Pollution Control” - SwitchMed II Project in Egypt, Policy Component A1 United Nations Environment Programme, A1 Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region & Europe, K1 capacity building K1 pollution K1 plastic YR 2023 FD 2023-05 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/46329 UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/46329 NO As part of the launch of the SwitchMed-II Project in Egypt, a roundtable discussion on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) was held on the 9th of May 2023. The theme of the meeting was “Control of Plastic Pollution”. The roundtable was co-convened by the Ministry of Environment (MOE), the Waste Management Regulatory Authority (WMRA) and the Centre for Environment & Development for the Arab Region & Europe (CEDARE), under the auspices of the EU-SwitchMed Programme and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The roundtable included two dialogue sessions on pollution resulting from the waste of plastic packaging materials, with a focus on the excessive use of single-use plastic bags (SUPBs) and actions taken to reduce their pollution. DS UN Environment Document Repository RD Sep 17, 2026