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We can provide expert comments on international consumer issues and have up to the minute research and statistics on key consumer issues. See below for links to the issues we work on, and our latest news releases.

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If you have a media inquiry we’d be happy to help, either directly or by putting you in touch with one of our member organisation based throughout the globe. To speak to us about the story you are working on please get in touch with the staff in our communications department:

Main point of contact: Daniel Torrance-Cameron, Digital and Engagement Specialist, media@consint.org, +44207 226 6663 or out of hours (before or after 9.30 -5.30 BST/GMT) +44 7572 149547

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Tackling Plastic Pollution – World Consumer Rights Day 2021 Theme Announced

Consumers International has announced that the theme for World Consumer Rights Day (15 March 2021), is ‘Tackling Plastic Pollution’. The campaign will raise awareness and engage consumers globally to adopt and promote more sustainable practices. Building on last year’s theme of ‘The Sustainable Consumer’, the campaign will also focus on the central role that consumer advocates, governments and businesses can play in tackling the global plastic pollution crisis.

World Standards Day 2020: Protecting people and planet with standards

Today is World Standards Day 2020. Standards impact most areas of everyday life, from universal symbols and signals to assurances about product quality, performance, composition and processes. Standards also help protect consumers by making the world easier, safer, more sustainable and more accessible, as well as allowing comparison and benchmarking across a broad array of sectors.
The United Nations’ Guidelines on Consumer Protection (UNGCP) are the only set of global recommendations for government, business and consumer groups to advance consumer rights. The UNGCP promotes both sustainability and establishing minimum standards, which shows the link at the international level between sustainability issues and the use of standards.
Since Consumers International’s creation in 1960, we have worked to ensure consumers have a voice in standardisation. On World Standards Day 2020, which focuses on “protecting the planet with standards”, we are promoting the vital role of standards for a sustainable future. Read on to explore three areas where standards are critical for protecting both consumers and the environment and the work we are doing to ensure continued safeguarding.

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Tackling Plastic Pollution – World Consumer Rights Day 2021 Theme Announced

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World Standards Day 2020: Protecting people and planet with standards

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Can I Recycle This?: A Global Mapping and Assessment of Standards, Labels and Claims on Plastic Packaging