National Action Plan on Plastic Waste Management 2021–2030.

The National Action Plan on Plastic Waste Management 2021–2030 (NAPPWM 2021–2030) has as The primary objective to assist in achieving the National Waste Management policy’s vision that is enabling a “Healthy life and Cleaner Environment for all”. Secondary objectives of the Action Plan are: To make all citizens and institutions aware of the need to understand their legal and constitutional responsibility of engaging in plastic waste management; To achieve strong co-ordination and teamwork between all stakeholders; To facilitate achieving Sustainable Development Goals 12, 14 and 15; To sensitize citizens, institutions, waste managers and service providers continuously on the need to be accountable and responsible; To encourage users and generators to align their thinking and actions to contribute to achieving Zero Landfill; To carry out plastics recycling effectively as a profitable venture; To improve standards and introduce affordable technology for plastic waste recycling; To promote and support innovation; To develop a sustainable plastic waste collection mechanism throughout the country; To reduce risks to public health, environment, and ecosystems and improve levels of occupational health and safety of waste handlers; To enhance effective partnerships to meet international obligations in waste management moving beyond compliance.
The Principles that guide the Plan are: Circular Economy; Preventative and Precautionary approach; Participatory, consultative process; Product Stewardship; Polluter-Pays; Sustainability; and Cost-Benefit principle. The Plan seeks to achieve 16 Goals across three terms (short, medium and long term); these include targets related to: inventory data, waste reduction/prevention (Reduction of marine plastics pollution comprising macro & micro plastics, Reduction of plastic waste from industrial and service sectors), reuse (Promote repair & reuse market for durable consumer products containing plastics through automobile and construction sectors), recycle (Increase PET bottle collection and recycling rates), final disposal (Limit final safe disposal of plastic waste to nonrecyclable and/or non-reusable residual plastics), education/ Training/R&D (Enhance knowledge and competency in plastic waste management of relevant stakeholder group; stablish a financing mechanism to facilitate the need for improvement in the plastic waste management sector in consultation with private sector participation; National reward schemes in place for PPP initiatives), health and safety (ensure occupational health and safety requirements are met and risk management mechanisms are in place for all plastic waste handlers of all gender), and community participation (All local authorities to design and implement a scheme to use voluntary community participation in addressing value chain stages).