Most efforts to minimize and mitigate the impacts of plastic pollution are focused on the mainland, particularly rivers and coastal areas. To date, not much attention has been paid to islands.
This factsheet highlights IUCN's Plastic Waste Free Islands (PWFI) project - part of its global Close the Plastic Tap Programme - to promote an island circular economy and to demonstrate effective, quantifiable solutions to addressing plastic leakage from Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
The project, supported by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), is being implemented in Fiji, Vanuatu and Samoa in Oceania and Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia and Grenada in the Caribbean.
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