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Our Alliance partners with companies across the world to help end plastic waste in the environment.

06/10/2026

India’s plastics challenge requires systems change.

Gaps in waste collection and sorting infrastructure contribute to overflowing landfills and widespread littering, while fragmented value chains limit the value retained in plastics.

The Alliance is working with state government partners on integrated, anchor projects, supported by strategic partnerships and co-funding from selected DFIs, to demonstrate incremental improvements across collection-to-recycling infrastructure.

In Mathura-Vrindavan, Project ParikraM – developed with municipal authorities and Recity – is expected to process up to 300 tonnes of waste per day, diverting 80% of the city's waste.

Explore how the Alliance’s Country Program in India is helping strengthen waste management systems and accelerate plastics circularity in our Progress Report 2025: https://bit.ly/4dmpe7h

05/10/2026

Turning promising innovations into solutions that work at scale remains a key challenge for plastics circularity. How can we make recycled materials more cost-competitive, improve quality for closed-loop applications, and build viable pathways for a circular economy?

On 13 October, the Alliance will bring together investors and innovators to explore where innovation in plastics circularity is making progress, where further innovation is needed, and what it will take to scale solutions.

Join Guillaume Chapuis, Mikela Druckman, Aymeric Grange, Jean-Loup Masson, Jan-Willem Muller, Valentijn de Neve, Alexander Rinderhoefer, and Justin Wood as they share perspectives on the opportunities and challenges shaping plastics circularity, from refill models and advanced recycling technologies to AI in waste management.

13 October | 4.00–5.30 PM CEST | 10.00–11.30 AM EDT | 10.00–11.30 PM SGT (online)

Register for the online webinar: https://bit.ly/4e8K7mD

02/10/2026

AI is increasingly being applied across the waste value chain, helping to improve material identification, sorting accuracy, and resource recovery.

But technology alone is not enough. The impact of AI-enabled solutions depends on the maturity of the waste management system around them.

As Jean-Loup Masson, Chief Advisor, Circular Solutions Center, Alliance to End Plastic Waste, explains, getting the right foundations in place is critical to the effectiveness of AI-enabled sorting.

AI-enabled plastic waste sorting is one of the 50+ investible opportunities highlighted in the World Economic Forum’s 50 Investible Opportunities for a New Nature Economy report, which identifies business activities that can generate economic value while supporting a nature-positive economy.

Read the World Economic Forum’s article to explore how AI is being applied across the waste value chain, the opportunity it presents, and the conditions needed to scale its impact: https://bit.ly/4hXaKNQ

01/10/2026

Indonesia produces 3.2 million tonnes of unmanaged plastic waste each year, with more than a third leaking into the ocean.This leakage is driven by gaps across the waste management system, from collection and segregation to recycling and connections with end markets.

In Malang Regency, East Java, the Alliance launched an integrated waste management pilot to address these gaps across the system. The pilot combines behaviour change campaigns to encourage waste segregation at source, upgraded collection infrastructure and stronger linkages with local recyclers.

In March 2026, we commissioned a mini materials recovery facility, helping to ensure waste from thousands of households is collected, sorted, and channelled into recycling and recovery rather than lost to the environment.

The Malang pilot reflects the Alliance’s approach to our Country Programs – directing investment and expertise towards markets where waste management systems are still developing and the opportunity to drive circularity is greatest.

Read our Progress Report 2025 to learn more about how the Alliance’s Country Program in Indonesia is helping build lasting systems change and advancing plastics circularity from the ground up: https://bit.ly/4hlPWPP

29/09/2026

South Africa faces persistent challenges in managing plastic waste at scale. Municipal waste systems are capacity-constrained and under financial pressure, while collection, sorting, recycling, data, and financing remain disconnected across the system. Informal waste reclaimers play a central role in collection but are often excluded from formal waste management systems.

Our South Africa strategy builds on proven approaches and partnerships to move towards system-level implementation. We are now working with government partners to create the enabling conditions and investment pathways needed to take proven approaches to broader scale.

We are also studying the feasibility for an anchor project to develop integrated municipal-level solid waste management systems across six cities. The goal is to unlock DFI capital for city-scale interventions and improve waste collection, sorting, recycling, and landfill diversion at scale.

Read our Progress Report 2025 to learn more about the Alliance's work to advance plastic waste management in South Africa: https://bit.ly/4ygDjvs

28/09/2026

In many parts of the world, informal waste workers play a critical role in waste management systems. They help keep plastics in circulation by collecting, sorting and recovering materials that would otherwise be lost as waste. Yet, they often work in difficult conditions, face health and safety risks, and have limited access to stable incomes and basic services.

The Alliance believes that better integrating these workers with formal waste management systems can strengthen collection, improve market access, increase material recovery, and create economies of scale, while ensuring workers benefit from the transition.

Across our programmes, we help informal waste workers transition into more responsible working conditions, with access to benefits, training, and personal protective equipment. As of July 2026, we have 19 projects across nine countries that engage with the informal sector. Together, these projects have created more than 2,900 new jobs and supported more than 22,000 informal waste workers.

Every country is different. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. But one thing is clear: a circular economy cannot work without the people who already keep materials moving through the system.

Watch the full video to learn how we are helping to ensure informal waste workers benefit from the transition to a circular economy.

24/09/2026

2025 marked a clear shift from ambition to action as we began implementing Strategy 2030 – moving from smaller standalone projects to larger-scale Country and Thematic Programs and laying strong foundations for the years ahead.

Our Country Programs focus on strengthening waste management systems in mainly under-served areas – including in Brazil, the GCC, India, Indonesia, and South Africa. We address critical gaps in collection, sorting and recycling in line with national priorities, working with governments and DFIs to overcome systemic barriers and support long-term sustainability.

At the same time, our Thematic Program is addressing system gaps that limit circularity across geographies, starting with films and flexible plastics. From improving collection for low-volume waste generators in the U.S. to advancing technologies for flexible film recycling and sorting in Europe, these projects address barriers across the value chain.

Read our Progress Report 2025 to discover how Strategy 2030 translated into action and impact on the ground in its first year of implementation: https://www.endplasticwaste.org/report2025

22/09/2026

Under Strategy 2030, our Country Programs are helping countries move up the recycling maturity curve through establishing stronger collection, sorting, and recycling systems.

In India, this is Project ParikraM.

Working with municipal authorities and Recity – a private waste management firm, we introduced a formal municipal waste processing system in Mathura-Vrindavan, which is expected to divert around 80% of the city's waste from landfill once it reaches full operational capacity by the end of 2026.

Read our 2025 Progress Report for the full picture of our Country Programs, including the progress we have made in India, Indonesia, South Africa, GCC (Saudi Arabia), and Brazil: https://www.endplasticwaste.org/report2025

17/09/2026

Last week, we released our Progress Report 2025, marking the first year of putting Strategy 2030 into action.

In 2025, we shifted from smaller, standalone projects to larger-scale, integrated programmes through our large-scale Country and Thematic Programs, helping countries move up the recycling maturity curve, and tackling complex, cross-market challenges such as flexible plastics.

We’re deepening our partnerships with a range of stakeholders to scale up impact, using our capital and expertise to unlock wider investment, demonstrate what works in plastics circularity, and help solutions scale and replicate in other markets.

Ending plastic waste is a long-term, systems-change challenge that requires sustained, coordinated efforts across the whole value chain.

We are focused on implementing Strategy 2030 despite a complex global environment, building on our progress so far through collaboration with strong partners across the value chain.

Swipe through for four key takeaways from our Progress Report 2025, and discover what we delivered in our first year of Strategy 2030 and where we’re heading next: https://www.endplasticwaste.org/report2025

15/09/2026

In 2025, we took vital steps in implementing our Strategy 2030 and have started to see some progress. Under our new strategic direction, we are focusing our efforts where they matter most: helping countries move up the recycling maturity curve, and tackling complex, cross-market challenges such as flexible plastic waste.

Through our Country and Thematic Programs, the Alliance has reduced 378,147 tonnes of unmanaged plastic waste and valorised 418,529 tonnes since 2019 – moving material up the waste hierarchy and out of the environment.

The Alliance does not work alone. Since 2019, we have mobilised US$641 million in funding commitments from other parties and impact investors, capital that is de-risking projects and unlocking further investment. In 2025, 559 organisations were engaged to enable systems change, finance, develop and implement our projects and broader initiatives.

We remain determined to implement Strategy 2030 in full, building on the strong foundations established over the last year to drive systems change and create a circular economy for plastics.

See the full picture in our Progress Report 2025: https://www.endplasticwaste.org/report2025

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