Solutions for change

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste Solution Model playbooks document comprehensive and integrated solutions to enable plastic circularity

Solution Models are central to our mission

Our projects show that tackling plastic waste through system-based solutions creates widespread benefits for all stakeholders. Each project, modelled on proven solutions, delivers environmental and social benefits to local communities, generates positive returns for funders, and contributes to advancing global industry knowledge.

Breaking the barriers to circularity

The pathway to circularity is filled with many gaps and barriers. Yet, these barriers also present us with the opportunity to lay the groundwork for circularity.

We collaborate with our network of partners to develop, strengthen, replicate, and scale Solution Models

Through our innovative projects around the world, we develop practical and impactful solutions to the plastic waste problem that can be deployed at scale. Our Solution Models - blueprints documenting these solutions – are designed to be replicated, scaled, and implemented with the specific needs of local communities in mind.

Our detailed whitepaper explains the framework that guides our Solution Models.

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What are solution models?

Our impact since 2019

253,211

tonnes

Amount of value captured from unmanaged plastic waste, primarily through recycling

239,985

tonnes

Amount of unmanaged plastic waste reduced

763,245

participants

reached through education programmes

US$445

million

total revenue collected

US$299

million

allocated to mission-related activities

10

projects

demonstrating Solution Models1

1Assured for up to 2023 reporting period

740

organisations in 2024

engaged by the Alliance to enable system change, finance and/or develop mission-related activities

412

new formal jobs created in 2024

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Capturing Value Through Basic Mechanical Recycling of Mixed Plastic Waste

This playbook addresses how basic mechanical recycling can improve mixed plastic waste recycling rates via affordable and simple technologies, and deliver greater economic opportunities through the creation of marketable products.

January 9, 2025

Unlocking Value Through Basic Manual Sorting of Municipal Waste

This playbook outlines strategies to improve the basic manual sorting of municipal waste and increase the value recovery of plastic waste for recycling.

Engaging Households in Segregated Municipal Waste Collection

This playbook addresses the process of identifying and separating different solid waste types within households to increase the volume and quality of collected materials.