A deputy minister said the waste sector contributes to economic growth, enterprise creation and environmental sustainability, and announced a review of Extended Producer Responsibility regulations. A proposed requirement would direct 40% of Producer Responsibility Organisations’ collected fees to waste infrastructure.
Illustrative image: Partial regression plot of annual rate of growth in real GDP per capita vs. scores on standardized tests of student achievement 1960-2009, both adjusted from 1960 GDP per capita. This is similar to Figure 1.1 in Hanushek and Woessmann (2015) but created from the first 8 rows of their Table 1A.1. Also, it's not clear what countries are included in "E-ASIA" in their Figure 1.1. "ASIA" in this plot includes China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapo — DavidMCEddy/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
